Applications Engineering, Principal Engineer
SynopsysAbout the role
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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 computational lithography, and you know that the real work starts after the algorithm is written. Getting a leading edge semiconductor manufacturer to trust a new OPC flow or adopt a machine learning feature means understanding their process, their constraints, and the three things they are not telling you in the first meeting. You move easily between customer sites, R&D engineering reviews, and your own prototyping work without losing context.
You are the engineer who gets called when a customer issue is too complex for standard support, not because you know everything, but because you ask the right questions and do not stop until the root cause is clear. You have debugged production flows at 2am and turned those lessons into specifications that R&D can actually build from. Python and C++ are tools you use daily, not skills you list aspirationally.
Working across time zones and shifting priorities does not rattle you. You know how to
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