Senior Applications Engineer (Aprisa)

Job Title

Senior Applications Engineer (Aprisa)

Role Summary

The Senior Applications Engineer will join the U.S. field team to support Siemens EDA's Aprisa place-and-route product. You will lead technical engagements with customers, own key customer relationships, train and mentor junior engineers, and coordinate with sales, R&D, marketing, and support to drive technical and commercial success.

This is a client-facing role focused on product adoption, P&R evaluations, and delivering results for advanced-node IC designs.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The role requires more than five years of industry experience and experience leading customer-facing technical engagements and mentoring junior staff.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• Lead technical engagements and P&R evaluations with tier-1 customers for Aprisa and related tools.
• Own and develop customer relationships; act as the primary technical liaison between customers, sales, and R&D.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on training for junior applications engineers.
• Perform benchmarking, tape-out support, and meet PPA and TTR goals for advanced-node flows.
• Advise on RTL-to-GDS flows, floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and STA.
• Document workflows, share best practices, and help improve internal business and support processes.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with marketing, technical support, customer experience, and R&D.
• Travel to customer sites and attend face-to-face meetings as required.

Requirements

Key technical and professional requirements.

Must-have:

• More than five years of industry experience in physical design or place-and-route roles.
• Hands-on experience with Aprisa, Innovus, IC Compiler I/II, and/or Nitro-SoC.
• Practical experience with RTL-to-GDS flows at advanced nodes, including tape-outs and P&R benchmarking.
• Deep understanding of floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, signal and power integrity, and static timing analysis.
• Expert-level scripting skills (TCL, Unix command line) and familiarity with Verilog and UPF.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, organization, and project-management orientation.

Nice-to-have:

• Prior experience working directly with tier-1 semiconductor customers on P&R evaluations and tape-outs.
• Experience coordinating across global teams and adapting processes for early-stage product rollouts.

Education Requirements

At minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CE), Electronic Physics (EP), Computer Science (CS), or VLSI is required.

About the Company

Company: Siemens

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Siemens EDA is a leading global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and systems. Their innovative solutions enable companies to enhance the development of electronic products efficiently and effectively, keeping pace with the complex demands of technology and physics. Siemens is committed to delivering advanced workflow solutions that integrate both EDA and MCAD tools for multi-domain design and manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.