# UCIe Applications Engineering Architect

**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 are a highly motivated and experienced Applications Engineer with a passion for cutting-edge technology. With at least 15 years of experience in design, verification, or applications, you bring deep expertise in ASIC Front-End or Back-End development and a broad understanding of SoC integration challenges.

Your exceptional verbal and written communication skills allow you to effectively collaborate with customers, R&D teams, and engineering leadership. You are recognized for your expertise in one or more key technology domains and are frequently relied upon for technical guidance on challenging integration and deployment topics.

You are excited about working with Synopsys' UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) IP and the latest industry specifications/applications on various market segments. You are ready to provide technical leadership for complex customer deployments, contribute to integration methodologies and best practices, and help drive product improvements through deep understanding of customer requirements.

**Responsibilities:**

- Understand complex IIP applications across diverse customer SoCs, chiplet architectures, and system implementations.

- Stay at the forefront of evolving ASIC/SoC design methodologies, advanced process technologies, and EDA tools.

- Provide expert guidance on challenging IIP integration topics including simulation, synthesis, floor planning, STA, DFT, package integration, silicon bring-up, validation, and system-level deployment.

- Lead technical reviews for highly complex customer programs and critical integration milestones.

- Serve as a recognized subject matter expert in one or more technology domains and provide technical consultation to customers, AE teams, and R&D organizations.

- Partner closely with customer engineering leadership to resolve challenging integration and deployment issues.

- Collaborate with R&D teams to identify recurring customer challenges and recommend product enhancements that improve deployment success.

- Develop and promote technical methodologies, best practices, application notes, and deployment guidance across the Applications Engineering organization.

- Mentor and develop applications engineers across multiple projects and technology areas.

- Participate in R&D design reviews and contribute technical insights that help improve future product deployment success.

**The Impact You Will Have:**

- Enable successful deployment of Synopsys UCIe IP in some of the industry's most advanced ASIC and SoC designs.

- Help customers overcome highly complex integration and deployment challenges through deep technical expertise.

- Drive customer success across multiple programs by advancing integration methodologies and technical best practices.

- Influence future product enhancements by translating customer deployment experiences into actionable recommendations.

- Develop methodologies and best practices that improve customer success across multiple programs.

- Strengthen Synopsys' technical leadership in advanced interface IP through domain expertise and customer engagement.

- Accelerate development of the Applications Engineering organization through mentoring and technical leadership.

- Build long-term partnerships with customer technical leadership and contribute to sustained customer success.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.

- Typically requires at least 15 years of design, verification, implementation, validation, or applications engineering experience.

- Deep expertise in ASIC Front-End or Back-End development and advanced SoC integration.

- Recognized expertise in one or more domains such as UCIe, PCIe/CXL, high-speed interface integration, silicon validation, implementation, or post-silicon bring-up.

- Strong analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.

- Proven verbal and written communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction through customer deployment experience and technical leadership.

**Preferred Experience:**

- Extensive experience with advanced technology processes (10nm/7nm/5nm/3nm and beyond).

- Strong understanding of Die-to-Die, PCIe, CXL, and chiplet ecosystems.

- Advanced silicon debug, validation, and hardware troubleshooting experience.

- Broad knowledge of EDA methodologies including P&R, Physical Verification, Signal Integrity, and Power Integrity.

## Skills

### Required
- ASIC Front-End
- Back-End development
- SoC integration
- UCIe
- PCIe/CXL
- high-speed interface integration

### Nice to have
- advanced technology processes
- Die-to-Die
- PCIe
- CXL
- chiplet ecosystems
- silicon debug
- validation
- hardware troubleshooting
- EDA methodologies

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