# Sr Staff Application Engineer- FPGA

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $157000-$235000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

We are seeking a Sr Staff Application Engineer- FPGA to join our team at Synopsys. As a leader in engineering solutions, we enable customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. In this role, you will work with ZeBu, HAPS, and ProtoCompiler platforms that define the category, helping customers see how AI is changing the game for hardware-assisted verification.

You will lead pre-sales technical engagements for ZeBu-200, ZS5 Emulation, and HAPS FPGA prototyping 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 RTL and simulation flows.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading pre-sales technical engagements for ZeBu-200, ZS5 Emulation, 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 platform value

- Deploying AI-based hardware-assisted verification platforms at customer sites

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

The ideal candidate will have:

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

- 10-12 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

- Experience with ZeBu, HAPS platforms, ProtoCompiler, or similar FPGA prototyping and emulation tools is highly desirable

In this role, you will have a significant impact on the company's success, including:

- Winning competitive deals and growing revenue

- De-risking customer decisions and shortening sales cycles

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

- Shaping product roadmap priorities and helping R&D build features that win in the field

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Xilinx
- Intel
- Verilog
- VHDL

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