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Sr. Emulations Applications Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Overview

Our Hardware Engineers at Synopsys are responsible for designing and developing cutting-edge semiconductor solutions. They work on intricate tasks such as chip architecture, circuit design, and verification to ensure the efficiency and reliability of semiconductor products. These engineers play a crucial role in advancing technology and enabling innovations in various industries.

Job Description

Emulation has become indispensable part of SoC designs verification with growing design size and complexity. Synopsys is uniquely positioned to offer the most complete verification, emulation, and prototyping solution in the market today. This Applications Engineer position offers a unique opportunity to work in both simulation and emulation. The job responsibilities involve exploration of customer’s current verification methodology, defining and developing solutions that fit in between simulation and emulation. In addition to end-to-end ownership of key accounts/initiatives, the position requires strong focus on product development and close collaboration with R&D teams.

In a customer facing role, the Applications Engineer drives product demonstrations, evaluations, feature deployments and competitive platform benchmarking. You own key on-going engagement and serve as single key contact for all technical challenges seen on specific account/project. In a product facing role, Applications Engineer drives product development with R&D based on their insight into the customers' needs and Issues. You would be responsible for defining requirement specs, ramping up product validation team, product development and customer delivery tracking, internal technical evaluations, trainings etc. Leveraging your close interaction with customers, R&D, Marketing, and Sales teams, you will be able to demonstrate the differentiated emulation/verification environment influencing customer action for Synopsys ZeBu HW adoption.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 4-5 years of experience in ASIC/FPGA design or verification methodology with a good understanding of SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL. 
  • Direct experience in SoC design verification/validation using either simulation or emulation or both. 
  • Good understanding of RTL, testbench, synthesis, mapping RTL to Xilinx FPGA based platform, Unix/Linux development environment.
  • Good understanding of synthesis and timing analysis concepts
  • Knowledge of C/C++ and scripting languages like Tcl, Python is a plus
  • Excellent customer interface, negotiation, communication and planning skills. Motivated to help customers achieve their verification/validation goals.
  • Sound trouble shooting and problem-solving skills. Ability to lead high complexity technical tasks spread across multiple teams.

The base salary range across the U.S. for this role is between $134,000 - $200,000. In addition, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request.

ABOUT US
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 to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance—eliminating months off their project schedules.

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At Synopsys, innovation is driven by our incredible team around the world. We feel honored to work alongside such talented and passionate individuals who choose to make a difference here every day. We're proud to provide the comprehensive benefits and rewards that our team truly deserves.

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