Applications Engineer, Sr. Staff Engineer

Job Title

Applications Engineer, Sr. Staff Engineer

Role Summary

Provide technical leadership for customer adoption and deployment of Fusion Compiler, focusing on place-and-route, timing closure, and methodology enablement for advanced-node designs. Work directly with customer implementation teams and internal product engineering to diagnose issues, deliver training, and drive product improvements.

Role is customer-facing and combines hands-on debug, technical consulting, and methodology development to improve customers' PPA and tapeout success rates.

Experience Level

Senior-level (title indicates senior role). No explicit years-of-experience requirement stated.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include direct technical support, methodology deployment, and product-feedback activities.

• Diagnose complex place-and-route issues and reproduce problems in-house to drive resolution with engineering teams.
• Lead technical engagements with advanced-node customers and define deployment strategies aligned with design goals.
• Design and deliver training sessions, workshops, and hands-on enablement for customer engineering teams.
• Act as the technical voice of the customer: translate field feedback into feature requests, bug reports, and roadmap input.
• Collaborate with account teams during pre-sales and post-deployment to shape technical solutions and demonstrate measurable PPA and turnaround improvements.
• Debug and optimize customer flows across design planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure.
• Build and maintain technical relationships with customer architects and implementation leads; act as a primary escalation resource.

Requirements

Must-have skills and technical experience for immediate contribution.

• Deep expertise in place-and-route methodologies: floorplanning, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure.
• Proven production or customer-facing experience with Synopsys Fusion Compiler.
• Strong working knowledge of static timing analysis (STA) and low-power design flows, including multi-voltage domains and power gating.
• Proficiency in TCL scripting for automation, flow customization, and debug.
• Ability and willingness to travel to customer sites, typically 20–30%.
• Nice-to-have: experience with advanced node designs (7nm and below).

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Synopsys

Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA

Synopsys is a leading company in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP solutions. It provides tools and services for designing and verifying complex semiconductor devices and systems. The company plays a pivotal role in the semiconductor industry, helping engineers innovate and deliver higher-quality products faster. Synopsys is committed to advancing technology standards and offers a range of software and hardware solutions to its clients globally.