# Applications Engineering, Staff Engineer_ICV **Company**: Synopsys **Location**: Hsinchu **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Ticker**: SNPS **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478 **Apply**: https://careers.synopsys.com/job/hsinchu/applications-engineering-staff-engineer-icv/44408/101295238976?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_052580a6-782 ## Description You will work on fill technology that powers the most advanced process nodes in the industry, and the foundries and customers you support will know your name. ### What You'll Be Doing - Partner directly with leading foundries to develop, qualify, and release advanced fill runsets for cutting-edge process nodes, ensuring they meet both foundry specifications and customer production requirements - Collaborate with R&D teams to define and drive new ICV features that address real foundry and customer needs, translating technical gaps into product requirements that ship - Support customer engagements by diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues in fill flows, DRC runsets, and physical design environments, often under tight tapeout timelines - Work across internal teams including sales, product management, and engineering to align on customer priorities, technical roadmaps, and deployment strategies - Manage the full lifecycle of runset releases, from initial development and testing through deployment, maintenance, and ongoing customer adoption in production flows - Drive root-cause analysis on escalations, working with customers and foundries to identify issues, propose solutions, and close the loop with product improvements - Bring foundry and customer feedback into the product development cycle, helping shape the next generation of Synopsys fill and verification solutions ### The Impact You Will Have - Enable successful tapeouts at advanced nodes by delivering fill runsets that work the first time in production, reducing design cycle time and risk for customers - Strengthen Synopsys relationships with strategic foundry partners by being the technical bridge that ensures their process requirements are met in our tools - Accelerate product adoption and customer success by resolving technical blockers quickly and effectively, often before they become escalations - Influence the ICV product roadmap by surfacing real-world needs from the field and ensuring R&D builds features that solve actual customer problems - Help customers achieve higher quality of results and faster turnaround by improving fill flows, runset accuracy, and integration with their existing design environments - Build long-term technical credibility with key accounts, becoming the engineer they call when something critical needs to work - Contribute to Synopsys competitive position in physical verification by ensuring our fill solutions remain best-in-class for the most advanced process nodes ### What You'll Need - Solid understanding of ASIC design flow, VLSI fundamentals, and CAD engineering principles, with the ability to navigate complex design environments - Working knowledge of Design Rule Checking, fill insertion, or physical verification flows, ideally with hands-on experience in at least one EDA tool suite - Familiarity with competitive EDA products in verification, place and route, or physical design, and an understanding of how they fit into the broader design flow - Ability to manage technical projects from scoping through delivery, balancing multiple priorities and stakeholders without losing sight of the end goal - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work through ambiguous or incomplete information, finding solutions that are both technically sound and practical - Experience working with foundries, customers, or cross-functional engineering teams is a plus - Fluency in English and Mandarin is required for effective communication with foundry and customer teams in Taiwan and across Asia ## Skills ### Required - ASIC design flow - VLSI fundamentals - CAD engineering principles - Design Rule Checking - fill insertion - physical verification flows - EDA tool suite ### Nice to have - experience working with foundries - customers - cross-functional engineering teams --- Source: [Apply at careers.synopsys.com](https://careers.synopsys.com/job/hsinchu/applications-engineering-staff-engineer-icv/44408/101295238976?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)