Senior Staff Application Engineer

Job Title

Senior Staff Application Engineer

Role Summary

Lead technical readiness and customer adoption for Synopsys' hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio, with a focus on FPGA prototyping (HAPS), HW/SW validation, and software bring-up. Work cross-functionally with R&D, Product Management, and field teams to define requirements, develop reference use cases, and support strategic deployments.

Experience Level

Senior — typically requires 8+ years of experience in FPGA prototyping, hardware-assisted verification, or complex systems engineering.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include defining requirements, delivering anchor projects, and enabling customer deployments.

• Define and validate software requirements and release readiness criteria for FPGA prototyping with HAPS in collaboration with Product Management and R&D.
• Lead anchor projects that demonstrate FPGA prototyping, HW/SW validation, and software bring-up use cases.
• Support strategic customer deployments and bring-up, troubleshoot technical blockers, and improve adoption.
• Develop reusable use cases, solution flows, and methodologies to increase deployment success across the HAV portfolio.
• Coordinate with R&D, Product Management, Field AE, and Marketing to translate customer needs into actionable technical direction.
• Create technical collateral such as demos, application notes, and methodology content to accelerate customer understanding and adoption.

Requirements

Key skills and experience required or strongly preferred.

• Must-have: Typically 8+ years experience in FPGA prototyping, hardware-assisted verification, or complex systems engineering with exposure to HAV technologies.
• Must-have: Strong understanding of FPGA-based prototyping, HW/SW validation, software bring-up, debug methodologies, and compile optimization.
• Must-have: Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction and driving execution across R&D, Product Management, and field organizations.
• Must-have: Ability to connect customer pain points to product behavior, methodology, and deployment improvements.
• Nice-to-have: Experience leading strategic customer deployments and creating reference flows for evaluations and production adoption.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is a plus.

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.