# Staff Applications Engineer - Timing & Signoff

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,000 - $168,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You will work as a Staff Applications Engineer - Timing & Signoff at Synopsys, a leading provider of engineering solutions from silicon to systems.

Your role involves deploying and supporting Synopsys signoff tools, including PrimeTime, RedHawk-SC, PrimeClosure, PTECO, Tweaker, and StarRC, at leading semiconductor companies and foundries working on advanced node SoCs and 3DICs.

Key responsibilities:

- Engage directly with customer design teams to diagnose and resolve static timing analysis, power integrity, signal integrity, and reliability signoff challenges

- Own technical issues end to end, working proactively with assigned accounts to deliver solutions that unblock tapeouts and keep development schedules on track

- Collaborate with Synopsys product development teams to translate customer pain points and feature requests into actionable product enhancements and roadmap priorities

- Support presales technical activities by demonstrating the Seascape platform and signoff solutions

- Build and maintain a knowledge base of EDA best practices, deployment guides, and troubleshooting FAQs

The impact you will have:

- Accelerate time to tapeout for customers by resolving complex STA, PDN, and reliability issues

- Shape the next generation of Synopsys signoff products by feeding real-world design challenges and customer requirements into engineering teams

- Expand adoption of the Seascape platform and advanced signoff flows across top-tier semiconductor companies

- Build deep technical trust with customer engineering teams

- Reduce escalations and support load by creating reusable solutions and best practices

Requirements:

- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in semiconductor design, with deep expertise in static timing analysis, timing closure, ECO implementation, or power delivery network analysis

- Proven ability to provide technical support or applications engineering for timing signoff or power integrity domains

- Working proficiency with Synopsys signoff tools such as PrimeTime, RedHawk-SC, PrimeClosure, PTECO, Tweaker, or StarRC

- Strong scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Tcl, or Perl

- Experience with PDN implementation flows, advanced node design challenges, or 3DIC methodologies is a strong plus

Salary: $112,000 - $168,000 per year

## Skills

### Required
- static timing analysis
- power integrity
- signal integrity
- reliability signoff
- PrimeTime
- RedHawk-SC
- PrimeClosure
- PTECO
- Tweaker
- StarRC
- Python
- Tcl
- Perl

### Nice to have
- PDN implementation flows
- advanced node design challenges
- 3DIC methodologies

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