Sr. Staff Application Engineer, FPGA Prototyping

Job Title

Sr. Staff Application Engineer, FPGA Prototyping

Role Summary

The Sr. Staff Application Engineer will drive technical readiness, methodology, and customer deployments for FPGA-based prototyping and hardware-assisted verification (HAV). This role partners with Product Management, R&D, field teams, and customers to define requirements, lead anchor projects, and deliver practical flows for HW/SW validation and software bring-up.

Experience Level

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

Responsibilities

Deliver practical, repeatable solutions that improve deployment success and release readiness for FPGA prototyping and related HAV workflows.

• Define and validate software requirements and readiness criteria for FPGA prototyping with HAPS in coordination with PM and R&D.
• Lead anchor projects demonstrating FPGA prototyping, HW/SW validation, and software bring-up use cases.
• Support strategic customer deployments and bring-ups; troubleshoot and resolve technical blockers in the field.
• Develop reusable use cases, solution flows, and methodology to accelerate adoption across the HAV portfolio.
• Collaborate with R&D, Product Management, Field AE, and Marketing to translate customer needs into technical direction.
• Create technical collateral: demos, application notes, and methodology content.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience required to be effective in this role.

• Proven hands-on experience with FPGA-based prototyping and hardware-assisted verification (HAV) workflows.
• Strong understanding of HW/SW validation, software bring-up, debug methodologies, and compile/implementation optimization.
• Experience troubleshooting bring-up and debug issues in real customer environments.
• Track record of influencing R&D, Product Management, and field teams to drive technical direction and execution.
• Ability to translate customer pain points into product, methodology, and deployment improvements.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to produce technical collateral and run anchor projects.
• Nice-to-have: prior experience with HAPS products, release-readiness processes, or publishing application notes and customer-facing methodology content; advanced degree.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical 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.