Applications Engineer, Sr. Staff Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Applications Engineer, Sr. Staff Engineer to join our team at Synopsys. As a senior staff engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting customer adoption of Fusion Compiler, diagnosing complex place and route issues, and driving resolution with engineering teams.

You will lead technical engagements with advanced node customers, defining deployment strategies that align tool capabilities with their design goals and constraints. Additionally, you will roll out new product methodologies by designing and delivering training sessions, workshops, and hands-on enablement for customer engineering teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting customer adoption of Fusion Compiler by diagnosing complex place and route issues, reproducing problems in-house, and driving resolution with engineering teams
• Leading technical engagements with advanced node customers, defining deployment strategies that align tool capabilities with their design goals and constraints
• Rolling out new product methodologies by designing and delivering training sessions, workshops, and hands-on enablement for customer engineering teams
• Serving as the technical voice of the customer to the product team, translating field feedback into actionable feature requests, bug reports, and roadmap input
• Collaborating with account teams to shape technical solutions during pre-sales and post-deployment phases, ensuring customers see measurable improvements in PPA and turnaround time
• Debugging and optimizing customer flows across design planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure using Fusion Compiler and related Synopsys tools
• Building and maintaining deep technical relationships with customer architects and implementation leads, becoming their go-to resource for methodology questions and escalations

The impact you will have:

• Accelerate customer tapeout schedules by resolving critical implementation bottlenecks that would otherwise delay production by weeks or months
• Increase Fusion Compiler adoption and deployment success rates across your accounts, directly contributing to revenue growth and customer retention
• Shape the product roadmap by surfacing real-world use cases and gaps that engineering teams would not see without your field insight
• Reduce customer support escalations by enabling teams to solve their own problems through better training, documentation, and methodology guidance
• Influence how the next generation of AI, automotive, and hyperscale chips get implemented by working with customers pushing the edge of process technology
• Strengthen Synopsys' reputation as a trusted technical partner, not just a tool vendor, by consistently delivering solutions that work in production
• Help define best practices and reference flows that get reused across multiple customer engagements and become part of the standard methodology

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Deep expertise in place and route methodologies, including floorplanning, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure
• Proven experience with Synopsys Fusion Compiler in a production design environment or customer-facing role
• Strong working knowledge of static timing analysis (STA) and low power design flows, including multi-voltage domains and power gating techniques
• Proficiency in TCL scripting for automation, flow customization, and debug
• Experience with advanced node designs (7nm and below) is a strong plus
• Ability to travel to customer sites as needed, typically 20-30% depending on account needs