Applications Engineering, Staff Engineer_ICV

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