# Principal Application Engineer- Emulation

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160000-$240000
**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- Emulation, you will work with customers who are building the chips that power everything, and the emulation strategies you design will determine whether they hit their tapeout or slip by quarters.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead technical engagements with customers deploying ZeBu or other emulation platforms, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, debug issues, and workflow inefficiencies that block verification progress

- Design emulation strategies for complex SoC and ASIC projects, defining partitioning approaches, testbench integration, and bring-up sequences that actually work under real project constraints

- Collaborate directly with Synopsys R&D teams to escalate product gaps, influence roadmap priorities, and validate new features against customer use cases before they ship

- Develop and deliver technical training sessions, workshops, and best practice guides for customer engineering teams and internal application engineers

- Troubleshoot critical emulation failures in live customer environments, working across hardware, RTL, testbench, and software layers to isolate root cause and restore productivity

- Mentor junior applications engineers on emulation methodologies, debugging techniques, and customer engagement strategies, building the team's technical depth and customer impact

**The Impact You Will Have**

- Accelerate verification closure for customers building AI accelerators, automotive SoCs, and hyperscale processors, cutting months off their schedules through smarter emulation strategies

- Expand ZeBu adoption across new customer segments by proving out use cases, building reference flows, and demonstrating measurable ROI in real project contexts

- Shape the emulation product roadmap by translating customer pain points into actionable R&D requirements that improve performance, usability, and scalability for the entire user base

- Build long-term technical partnerships with lead architects and verification managers at top semiconductor companies, becoming their trusted advisor for emulation and verification strategy

- Reduce customer escalations and support load by creating reusable methodologies, automation scripts, and documentation that solve recurring problems once instead of repeatedly

- Strengthen Synopsys' reputation as the emulation platform that does not just run, but runs fast enough and stable enough to be the backbone of verification for the hardest chips in the industry

**Requirements**

- 10+ years of hands-on experience with hardware emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu, Mentor Veloce, or Cadence Palladium, including deployment, debug, and performance optimization

- Deep proficiency in hardware description languages including Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL, with the ability to read, debug, and optimize RTL for emulation

- Strong understanding of verification methodologies including UVM, constrained random testing, and coverage-driven verification in the context of emulation environments

- Solid grasp of SoC and ASIC architecture, including subsystem integration, interconnect protocols, memory hierarchies, and software/hardware co-verification flows

- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or TCL for automation, flow development, and data analysis in emulation and verification contexts

- Proven ability to debug complex interactions across RTL, testbenches, emulation hardware, and embedded software, isolating issues that span multiple domains

- Experience with customer-facing technical roles such as field applications engineering, customer support engineering, or technical consulting, with a track record of solving hard problems under pressure

## Skills

### Required
- hardware emulation platforms
- Verilog
- SystemVerilog
- VHDL
- UVM
- constrained random testing
- coverage-driven verification
- SoC and ASIC architecture
- Python
- Perl
- TCL

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