# Principal Applications Engineer - Physical Verification

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $184000-$276000
**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 decade or more of experience in Physical Verification, you will drive IC Validator evaluations and competitive benchmarks at leading semiconductor customers, develop and customize Physical Verification rule decks and runsets, and solve complex customer issues.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Drive IC Validator evaluations and competitive benchmarks at leading semiconductor customers, from initial setup through production signoff adoption

- Develop, customize, and debug Physical Verification rule decks and runsets for DRC, LVS, FILL, and PERC across advanced process nodes

- Solve complex customer issues that span tool behavior, runset logic, design methodology, and foundry rule interpretation

- Lead technical demonstrations, training sessions, and hands-on customer engagements that move evaluations to deployment

- Build and support AI/ML and agentic applications for Physical Verification, including intelligent debug, violation classification, and workflow automation

- Collaborate with R&D, Product Engineering, and Sales to translate customer feedback into product requirements and enhancements

- Script and automate Physical Verification flows using Python, TCL, Perl, and shell scripting to improve customer productivity and adoption

**The Impact You Will Have:**

- Enable customers to tape out advanced-node designs on time by ensuring their Physical Verification flows are correct, efficient, and production-ready

- Accelerate IC Validator adoption at strategic accounts, directly contributing to Synopsys revenue and market position in Physical Verification

- Reduce customer debug time and engineering effort by deploying AI-assisted workflows that catch issues earlier and classify violations intelligently

- Influence the future of Synopsys Physical Verification tools by providing real-world customer feedback that shapes R&D priorities

- Build long-term technical relationships with customers that make Synopsys their trusted partner for signoff verification

- Help define how AI and agentic technologies will transform Physical Verification workflows across the semiconductor industry

- Improve foundry rule deck quality and deployment speed by identifying gaps, debugging issues, and working with ecosystem partners

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, VLSI, or a related technical field

- 10+ years of hands-on industry experience in Physical Verification, including DRC, LVS, FILL, and PERC methodologies

- Deep experience with Physical Verification tools such as IC Validator, Calibre, Assura, or equivalent EDA solutions

- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, TCL, Perl, or shell scripting for runset development and workflow automation

- Proven ability to develop, qualify, and debug Physical Verification rule decks and runsets for complex designs

- Familiarity with Physical Design flows using Fusion Compiler or Innovus, and custom layout environments like Custom Compiler or Virtuoso

- Experience driving customer evaluations, competitive benchmarks, and production deployment at semiconductor companies is a strong plus

## Skills

### Required
- Physical Verification
- IC Validator
- Calibre
- Python
- TCL
- Perl
- shell scripting
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- VLSI

### Nice to have
- Fusion Compiler
- Innovus
- Custom Compiler
- Virtuoso

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