Applications Engineering, Sr Staff Engineer-Physical Design, Synthesis

We Are

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You Are

You have spent years deep in the RTL to GDSII flow and you know where things break. Not theoretically, actually. You have debugged synthesis runs that should have closed but didn't, traced timing violations back to their root cause, and explained to a frustrated design team why their netlist won't converge without making them feel like they missed something obvious. You think like a designer but communicate like someone who has sat across from customers who need answers today, not next week.

You are comfortable moving between Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime, and Formality without losing sight of what the customer is actually trying to accomplish. When someone sends you a cryptic error log at 4pm, you do not panic. You ask three clarifying questions, reproduce it locally if you can, and either solve it or escalate it to R&D with enough context that they can act on it immediately.

You do not wait for perfect documentation. You read between the lines, test assumptions, and build solutions that work in the real constraints customers face, not the ideal ones described in the user guide. At Synopsys, you will work directly with the teams building the chips that power everything, and what you solve today will unblock someone's tapeout tomorrow.

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