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Sr. Staff Application Engineer

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Category: Engineering Hire Type: Employee
Job ID 50421BR Date posted 05/23/2024
At Synopsys, we are 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 are 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 IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC—faster. We offer the world’s broadest portfolio of silicon IP—predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

Applications Engineer
This position requires a highly motivated and experienced individual to work with Synopsys’ customers on integrating leading edge Interface IP (IIP) into their ASIC SoC/systems for next generation products. Ethernet Interface IP includes all speeds from 1G, 10G, 100G all the way up to 800G and growing.

The position offers opportunities to work on Synopsys IIP and the latest industry specifications/applications on various hot market segments. The position will provide IIP integration guidance to customers throughout their SoC flow to resolve technical challenges, perform integration reviews at key milestones and support silicon/system bring-up. Some travels will be required.

Responsibilities Include


  • Understand IIP applications on customer specific SoC and systems.
  • Have a strong understanding of the Ethernet protocol spec and guide customers to choose the right set of configurations for their design.
  • Keep abreast of the latest ASIC/SoC design flows and EDA tools
  • Be a consultant with customers to help resolve IIP integration challenges including simulation, synthesis, floorplan, STA, DFT, silicon bring-up, etc.
  • Provide integration training and recommendation to customers
  • Provide feedback to Synopsys R&D for continuous IIP product improvements
  • Provide pre-sale support on IIP evaluations and support conference demos
  • Participate in R&D design reviews to align development with future customer needs
  • Collaborate with R&D to produce application notes on advance topics




Key Qualifications
  • Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar with focus on VLSI design.
  • Typically requires at least 5+ years of design, verification, or applications experience.
  • Design or verification experience with RTL coding in Verilog/VHDL
  • Prior experience of working with high-speed protocols such as Ethernet, DDR, PCIe is highly valued.
  • Hands-on experience on simulation, synthesis, STA will be preferred.
  • Proficient with UNIX environment.
  • Creative and results oriented with the ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently.
  • Since the role will be working with customers worldwide a strong verbal and written communication skills in English is needed.
  • Ability to work across teams to delivery the solutions to customers.
  • Strong analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills
  • Occasional travel
Preferred Experience
  • Experience with scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Python, etc.)
  • Silicon debug and FPGA/hardware troubleshooting skills.
  • Experienced with ASIC/SoC tape-out from concept to full production.
  • Experience on CDC, RDC, Lint, DFT, STA, and LEC will be a plus
Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.




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