Principal Applications Engineer, Physical Design Specialist

General Information

Job Title Principal Applications Engineer, Physical Design Specialist Job ID 4429 City Sunnyvale State/Province California Date Posted 03-Sep-2024 Job Category Engineering Job Subcategory Applications Engineering Hire Type Employee Remote Eligible No Base Salary Range: $173000 - $259000

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

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.

We’re looking for Physical Design Specialist (PDS) to join the team.

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In this role you would be:

• The primary focus of the Physical Design Specialist (PDS) is to support the sale and adoption of Synopsys Implementation products to help customers achieve tangible and lasting performance improvements in the cost, quality, and development time for projects. PDS are expected to possess Place & Route (physical), Synthesis (logical and physical), STA experience and knowledge. PDS AEs are expected to be knowledgeable in multiple domains of design implementation and understand codependency of flow and methodology such as Macro & Standard Cell Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis, Routing, Advanced Timing Optimization techniques. Additional knowledge of RTL Coding, Synthesis, Equivalency check, Constraints (timing & Power) is preferable.
• In addition, PDS AEs will articulate design methodologies involving Synopsys tools at a very advanced Node (Sub 5nm) using Synopsys Full RTL-to-GDSII solution (Fusion Compiler / IC Compiler II/ICC2). Development time will be spent gaining expertise in additional, or specialization tools, broadening focus from product emphasis to methodology, sharpening Account Management skills, and learning to leverage success.
• PDS AEs are expected to manage multiple customer activities concurrently, and