# Principal Application Engineer - FPGA

**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. As a Principal Application Engineer - FPGA, you will work on emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms that matter, including ZS5, ZeBu-200, and HAPS.

Your role will involve leading pre-sales technical engagements for these platforms, working directly with prospective customers to understand their SoC, GPU, and AI design validation challenges. You will present tailored hardware-assisted verification solutions that address customer-specific needs around partitioning, performance, debug, and integration with their existing design and verification flows.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading pre-sales technical engagements for ZS5, ZeBu-200, and HAPS FPGA prototyping platforms

- Presenting tailored hardware-assisted verification solutions to address customer-specific needs

- Conducting technical evaluations, proof-of-concept projects, and benchmarks to demonstrate how Synopsys platforms solve customer problems

- Deploying AI-based hardware-assisted verification platforms at customer sites and guiding integration

- Collaborating with the sales team to shape opportunity strategy and move deals through the pipeline

- Delivering compelling product demonstrations, technical presentations, and architecture reviews

The impact you will have includes:

- Directly winning competitive deals and growing ZS5, ZeBu-200, and HAPS revenue

- De-risking customer decisions and shortening sales cycles through proof-of-concept work

- Setting customers up for long-term success and creating expansion opportunities

- Shaping product roadmap priorities and helping R&D build features that win in competitive evaluations

Requirements include:

- Bachelor's or Master's in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

- 12-15 years of hands-on experience in emulation, FPGA-based prototyping, ASIC design, or SoC validation

- Strong command of FPGA architectures, RTL design, synthesis flows, and hardware bring-up and debug techniques

- Experience with ZS5, ZeBu, HAPS platforms, or ProtoCompiler is highly desirable

## Skills

### Required
- FPGA architectures
- RTL design
- synthesis flows
- hardware bring-up and debug techniques
- ZS5
- ZeBu
- HAPS platforms

### Nice to have
- ProtoCompiler

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