Staff Application Engineer – STA / Signoff

Job Title

Staff Application Engineer 6 STA / Signoff

Role Summary

Provide technical leadership and customer-facing application engineering for static timing analysis (STA), power integrity, signal integrity, and reliability signoff across advanced-node SoC and 3DIC designs. Support deployment, debugging, optimization, and adoption of Synopsys signoff tools and platforms while collaborating with product engineering to influence product improvements.

Work spans pre-sales and post-sales customer engagements, developing reusable solutions, best practices, and knowledge-base content to improve customer outcomes and internal capability.

Experience Level

Senior-level — requires 5+ years of semiconductor design experience (STA, timing closure, ECO, or PDN/EMIR).

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical customer support, deployment, and product feedback.

• Deploy and support signoff solutions for customers and foundries (STA, PDN, SI, reliability).
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting and optimization using tools such as PrimeTime, RedHawk-SC, PrimeClosure, PTECO, and Tweaker.
• Support deployment and adoption of the Synopsys Seascape platform.
• Lead customer engagements across pre-sales and post-sales phases and own issues end-to-end.
• Collaborate with product engineering to escalate, validate, and prioritize product improvements based on customer feedback.
• Develop knowledge-base articles, best practices, and reusable scripts/workflows.
• Train, mentor, and share expertise with customers and internal teams; contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience.

• 5+ years in semiconductor design with expertise in STA, timing closure, ECO, or PDN/EMIR at block or SoC level.
• Hands-on experience with PrimeTime, RedHawk-SC (RHSC), PrimeClosure, PTECO, or Tweaker.
• Strong understanding of signoff flows, timing analysis, power integrity, and reliability signoff.
• Experience in customer-facing roles such as application engineering or customer engineering.
• Proven ability to debug complex design issues independently and drive them to resolution.
• Programming/scripting skills to automate workflows (e.g., Tcl, Python, or similar).

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with advanced-node design flows and 3DIC design challenges.
• Prior leadership, project ownership, or technical influencer experience.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

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.