Senior Applications Engineer, Applications Engineering

Job Title

Senior Applications Engineer, Applications Engineering

Role Summary

Provide field-level technical support and enablement for Synopsys Hardware Assisted Verification (HAV) solutions, primarily Zebu Emulation and Protocompiler Prototyping. Work across customers, R&D, and sales to resolve integration, partitioning, synthesis, place-and-route, and hardware debug issues.

Experience Level

Senior. Typical background: 1–3 years of hands-on experience in FPGA, emulation, or prototyping environments working directly with customer designs and deployment.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include customer-facing support, technical enablement, and collaboration with R&D and sales.

• Troubleshoot customer issues across partitioning, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and hardware debug for emulation and prototyping flows.
• Migrate customer designs to new software releases and resolve regressions or performance problems.
• Deploy and validate new software features on customer designs, including advanced partitioning and debug capabilities.
• Deliver technical training and enablement for customers on multi-FPGA partitioning and hardware-software co-verification workflows.
• Collaborate with HAV R&D to provide reproducible test cases, detailed bug reports, and product improvement suggestions.
• Support pre-sales evaluations by running customer designs and demonstrating tool performance and limitations.
• Occasional onsite travel for critical issue resolution, training, or customer support.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and practical experience; listed items separate required from preferred.

• Must-have: Hands-on experience with FPGA logic design and implementation, including synthesis, place-and-route, and timing closure.
• Must-have: Ability to read, debug, and modify RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL) written by others.
• Must-have: Practical knowledge of FPGA architecture and backend implementation flows, including resource utilization, clock-domain crossing, and design partitioning.
• Must-have: Proven ability to reproduce customer issues, analyze logs/waveforms/utilization reports, and present actionable context to R&D.
• Preferred: Exposure to Xilinx or Intel/Altera synthesis tools and familiarity with Synopsys prototyping/emulation hardware and software.
• Preferred: Experience with interface protocols such as PCIe, AXI, UART, or I2C in hardware-software integration contexts.
• Preferred: Scripting skills (Python, Tcl, shell) for automating tasks and log analysis.
• Other: Customer-facing communication skills, ability to work across time zones, and calm troubleshooting under pressure.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering with 2–3 years of relevant experience, or Master’s in Electronics Engineering with 1–2 years of relevant experience in emulation or prototyping environments (as stated in source).

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.