# Staff Application Engineer- FPGA

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129000-$193000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

We are seeking a highly experienced 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 at the intersection of cutting-edge emulation and prototyping platforms, helping customers solve validation problems that directly impact their product schedules.

You will lead pre-sales technical engagements for ZS5, ZeBu-200, 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 design flows.

Key responsibilities include:

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

- Presenting tailored hardware-assisted verification solutions

- Conducting technical evaluations, proof-of-concept projects, and benchmarks

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

- Collaborating closely with the sales team to shape opportunity strategy

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

The ideal candidate will have:

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

- 5-6 years of hands-on experience in emulation, FPGA-based prototyping, ASIC design, or SoC validation

- Strong command of FPGA architectures such as Xilinx or Intel, RTL design in Verilog or VHDL, synthesis flows, and hardware bring-up and debug

- Experience with ZS5, ZeBu, HAPS platforms, or ProtoCompiler is a strong plus

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

- Winning competitive deals and growing ZS5, ZeBu-200, and HAPS 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
- emulation
- prototyping
- ASIC design
- SoC validation
- RTL design
- Verilog
- VHDL
- synthesis flows
- hardware bring-up and debug

### Nice to have
- ZS5
- ZeBu
- HAPS
- ProtoCompiler

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