R&D Engineering, Sr Staff Engineer

Synopsys software engineers are key enablers in the world of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), developing and maintaining software used in chip design, verification, and manufacturing. They work on assignments like designing, developing, and troubleshooting software, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies like AI/ML, GenAI, and Cloud.

You are a Staff-level web engineer and technical leader who thrives in a small, highly effective team where individual ownership has clear, outsized impact. You operate with a high degree of autonomy, taking ideas from ambiguous problem statements through architecture, implementation, deployment, and long-term operational ownership.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise web applications and services, with end-to-end accountability for outcomes.
• Drive architecture across the full stack (front-end, back-end, databases, cloud), ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Set and evolve platform patterns and best practices using the PANN technology stack and associated development frameworks.
• Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and business teams to define strategy, translate needs into technical roadmaps, and deliver high-value solutions.
• Own complex workflow design and deliver intuitive user experiences that simplify sophisticated business processes.
• Design and optimize relational and non-relational data architectures; guide data modeling standards and performance tuning practices.
• Lead development of AI-enabled capabilities (automation, analysis, content generation, knowledge extraction), including evaluation and responsible adoption.
• Architect integrations across business systems, knowledge repositories, and AI services; define integration standards and reusable components.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical, high-leverage solutions that improve developer velocity, user productivity, and operational excellence.
• Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, incident response practices, and continuous improvement loops.
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code for quality and security, and raise the bar for engineering execution across the team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 8+ years building and owning production enterprise web applications (strong evidence of full-stack delivery, architecture leadership, and operational ownership may offset years).
• Deep experience with the PANN technology stack (PostgreSQL, Angular, NestJS, Node.js) and modern web development frameworks.
• Proven ability to design and evolve microservices architectures, including service boundaries, API contracts, and operational concerns.
• Strong experience using Prisma for data modeling, database access, and schema migrations at scale.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, REST APIs, and modern application architecture patterns.
• Strong experience designing, developing, and optimizing relational and non-relational databases; hands-on PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning.
• Experience containerizing and operating services with Docker and/or Kubernetes; deploying and managing web servers, load balancers, and reverse proxies (Nginx/Apache).
• Experience with cloud-based application development and deployment, including security and cost/performance tradeoffs.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and improving developer productivity through automation.
• Practical, production-oriented experience with AI technologies (LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, knowledge extraction, automation workflows), including evaluation, safety, and quality considerations.
• Strong understanding of SDLC best practices, testing strategies, secure coding principles, and threat modeling.
• Experience integrating multiple systems through APIs, eventing, and data services; ability to create durable integration patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence without authority and align cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family.
• In addition to company holidays, ETO and FTO Programs.
• Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more.
• Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24-month look-back.
• Save for your future with retirement plans that vary by region and country.
• Competitive salaries.