Design Verification Applications Engineer, Sr Staff to Principal
SynopsysJob Title
Design Verification Applications Engineer, Sr Staff to Principal
Role Summary
Senior applications engineering role focused on driving adoption of Synopsys verification solutions with semiconductor customers. The role supports SoC projects by debugging and optimizing verification environments, delivering training and workshops, and collaborating with R&D and field teams to resolve verification blockers.
Experience Level
Senior-level (staff to principal). No specific years-of-experience requirement listed.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include customer-facing technical enablement, hands-on verification work, and cross-team collaboration.
- Drive customer adoption of Synopsys verification tools across Taiwan and Asia on live SoC projects.
- Debug and optimize SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches; resolve coverage gaps, assertion failures, and regression bottlenecks.
- Deliver technical workshops, training sessions, and hands-on demos on constrained-random verification and coverage closure.
- Collaborate with Synopsys R&D to relay customer use cases and enhancement requests.
- Author technical documentation, application notes, and internal knowledge-base articles.
- Support SoC-level regression and coverage-closure activities to help customers meet verification milestones and tape-out deadlines.
- Coordinate with sales, support, and field teams to ensure timely resolution of technical issues.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and capabilities.
- Extensive experience building, debugging, and optimizing SystemVerilog testbenches, SystemVerilog Assertions, and UVM environments.
- Proven track record with constrained-random and coverage-driven verification, SoC-level regressions, and coverage closure on production projects.
- Strong scripting skills for automation and tool integration (Perl, Python, Tcl, Bash, Makefile).
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex verification issues in large, multi-block SoC environments.
- Excellent technical writing skills in English for specifications and customer-facing documentation.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience working with global teams and cross-cultural customer engagements.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; or equivalent hands-on verification engineering experience. (The posting explicitly allows 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.
