At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.

Our Silicon Design & Verification business is all about building high-performance silicon chips—faster. We’re the world’s leading provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon chips. And we design the next-generation processes and models needed to manufacture those chips. We enable our customers with fast simulation models to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance—eliminating months off their project schedules.

Staff R&D Engineer, Virtual Prototyping Tools

About the job

Virtual Prototypes are simulation models for a variety of electronic platforms in the automotive, enterprise, telecommunications or cloud market today. Our Virtual Prototyping team delivers these models to customers and enables them to start with product development long before hardware is available. To create the next generation of tools for Virtual Prototyping, we need you! You have a solid background in software engineering? You have a proven track record of developing high quality customer facing software?

In your new role you will:

• Develop high quality software modules in front and back-end scope
• Collaborate with peers across product teams and field experts to develop & maintain best-in-class solutions for our customers

You are best equipped for this task if you have

• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or similar
• Experience in a software development position
• Solid C/C++ or Java programming language skills
• Good programming skills in Python

Preferred Experience

• Experience in UX design
• Experience in cloud computing and containerization technologies
• Knowledge in database technologies
• Knowledge in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Agile SW engineering methodologies

Personal Attributes

• Favor thorough understanding over empirical approaches
• Driven by enthusiasm and work ethic rather than supervision

• Attentive to details
• Strong desire to learn and explore new technologies

What can you expect from us?
We develop tools that our customers use to create better software, faster. This means to be at the forefront of enabling customers with unique simulation and testing software. Do you want to be part of this story? We can offer:

• Great design freedom for innovation in the development of outstanding simulation solutions
• A lot of flexibility in how you work to allow for an optimal work/life balance
• All the benefits of a global company with the spirit of an agile team
• A competitive salary, share purchase program, bonus and pension scheme