# Applications Engineering, Architect

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $198000-$297000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You will join Synopsys, the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. With a base salary range of $198,000-$297,000, you will work on HAPS FPGA prototyping platforms and ProtoCompiler, partnering with sales to win complex, high-stakes deals where your technical credibility makes the difference.

### Responsibilities

- Lead pre-sales technical engagements for HAPS FPGA prototyping platforms and ProtoCompiler, working directly with prospective customers to understand their SoC validation challenges and design requirements

- Architect and present tailored prototyping solutions that address customer-specific needs around partitioning, performance, debug, and integration with their existing design flows

- Conduct technical evaluations, proof-of-concept projects, and benchmarks that demonstrate how HAPS solves the customer's real problems, not just theoretical capabilities

- Collaborate closely with the sales team to shape opportunity strategy, qualify technical fit, handle objections, and move deals through the pipeline

- Deliver compelling product demonstrations, technical presentations, and architecture reviews to engineering teams and executive stakeholders

- Respond to RFPs and RFIs with detailed, accurate technical content that positions Synopsys as the clear choice

- Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with customer architects and engineering leaders that extend beyond individual sales cycles

### The Impact You Will Have

- Your technical credibility and solution design will directly win competitive deals, growing HAPS revenue and expanding Synopsys footprint in strategic accounts

- Proof-of-concept work you lead will de-risk customer decisions and shorten sales cycles by proving value early and clearly

- Solutions you architect will set customers up for long-term success, reducing post-sale friction and creating expansion opportunities

- Customer insights you bring back will shape product roadmap priorities and help R&D build features that win in the field

- Relationships you establish with key technical buyers will open doors for the sales team and create multi-year partnership opportunities

- Technical content and competitive positioning you develop will strengthen the entire field team's ability to sell HAPS effectively

- Your ability to translate complex prototyping challenges into clear business value will elevate how customers perceive Synopsys technical leadership

### Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

- 15+ years of hands-on experience in FPGA-based prototyping, ASIC design, or SoC validation, with deep understanding of RTL-to-hardware workflows and design challenges

- Proven track record in pre-sales or customer-facing technical roles, ideally supporting complex EDA tool sales or hardware platform engagements

- Strong command of FPGA architectures (Xilinx, Intel, or similar), RTL design in Verilog or VHDL, synthesis flows, and hardware bring-up and debug

- Demonstrated ability to architect prototyping solutions for multi-million gate designs, including partitioning strategies, clocking, and system integration

- Experience with HAPS platforms, ProtoCompiler, or similar FPGA prototyping tools is highly desirable

- Comfort with travel (potentially 30-50%) to customer sites for evaluations, presentations, and technical engagements

## Skills

### Required
- FPGA-based prototyping
- ASIC design
- SoC validation
- RTL-to-hardware workflows
- FPGA architectures
- RTL design
- synthesis flows
- hardware bring-up and debug

### Nice to have
- HAPS platforms
- ProtoCompiler

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