Senior Staff Technical Applications Engineer, STA & ECO

You will engineer the future with Synopsys, a leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems.

As a Senior Staff Technical Applications Engineer, STA & ECO, you will drive adoption of PrimeTime and PrimeClosure across customer accounts, working directly with design teams to integrate the tools into their flows.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Driving adoption of PrimeTime and PrimeClosure across customer accounts in both pre-sale evaluations and post-sale deployment
• Running competitive benchmarks against other STA tools, documenting performance, accuracy, and capacity advantages in real customer design contexts
• Delivering hands-on training sessions and technical workshops to customer engineering teams, covering timing closure methodology, ECO flows, and advanced PrimeTime features
• Partnering with R&D and product marketing to translate customer pain points into feature requests, providing detailed use cases and technical requirements that shape the product roadmap
• Troubleshooting complex timing issues in customer designs, diagnosing problems related to timing corners, process variation, crosstalk, and signal integrity
• Presenting technical solutions and methodology recommendations to both design engineers and engineering management, tailoring the message to each audience
• Building and maintaining technical relationships with key customers, becoming their trusted advisor for timing closure challenges

The impact you will have includes:

• Enabling successful tapeouts at advanced nodes by helping customers close timing on schedules that directly affect their product launch dates
• Increasing PrimeTime and PrimeClosure adoption across your customer base, growing tool usage and expanding Synopsys's footprint in critical accounts
• Reducing customer time spent fighting timing issues by delivering methodology improvements and best practices that make their flows more efficient
• Feeding high-quality customer feedback into R&D, directly influencing which features get prioritized and how they get implemented
• Strengthening Synopsys's competitive position by winning benchmarks and proving tool superiority in head-to-head evaluations
• Building long-term technical partnerships with customers that lead to renewals, expansions, and references for new business
• Elevating the expertise of customer teams through training and knowledge transfer, creating advocates who champion Synopsys tools internally

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Solid working knowledge of Static Timing Analysis and ECO closure, with the ability to explain timing concepts, constraints, and methodologies to design teams
• Direct experience with at least two chip tapeouts at 16nm or below nodes, where you were responsible for timing closure or ECO implementation
• Hands-on proficiency with Synopsys PrimeTime, including experience running STA, analyzing timing reports, and debugging violations
• Understanding of timing corners, process variation (OCV, AOCV, POCV), and signal integrity effects like crosstalk and IR drop
• Experience with ECO flows using PTECO or PrimeClosure, including gate sizing, buffer insertion, and logic restructuring
• BSEE or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant experience, or MSEE with 3+ years, focused on digital design, timing analysis, or applications engineering
• Familiarity with scripting in TCL or Python to automate analysis tasks and customize flows is a plus