Applications Engineering Senior Engineer

Job Description and Requirements

We Are

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You Are

You have worked in analog or custom design long enough to understand what breaks and why. Maybe you spent a few years as a circuit designer debugging convergence issues at 2am before a tapeout, or you were the CAD engineer who actually had to make the tools work when the flow documentation was three releases out of date. Either way, you know the difference between a tool problem and a methodology problem, and you have learned to ask the right questions to figure out which one you are dealing with.

Working with customers appeals to you because you like solving real problems on real designs, not just running test cases. You are comfortable jumping into an unfamiliar environment, poking around until you understand what is happening, and then explaining what you found in a way that makes sense to someone who thinks differently than you do. You do not need perfect information to get started, and you do not freeze when someone asks a question you have not seen before.

You are ready to own customer engagements with support from senior engineers when you need it. You want to get deeper into analog simulation platforms, learn how to run technical evaluations that actually prove capability, and build the skills to become a trusted advisor that customers call when something is blocking their tapeout. At Synopsys, you will work on real customer designs across analog, RF, and mixed-signal domains, and what you deploy will directly affect whether their chip ships on schedule.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead technical evaluations and benchmarks for customers, demonstrating Synopsys Custom Implementation Platform on their actual design challenges with guidance from senior team members
• Deploy analog simulation flows including SPICE, FastSPICE, and mixed-signal simulation for customer design teams working on custom digital, analog, RF, and memory blocks
• Debug simulation convergence issues, performance bottlenecks, and methodology gaps in customer environments, escalating to senior engineers when you hit something outside your current expertise
• Demonstrate cloud-based analog design flows, showing customers how to run complete custom implementation workflows through cloud infrastructure
• Deliver technical training sessions and provide on-site support to customer design teams, helping them adopt best practices across schematic, layout, analog verification, and physical verification
• Document customer issues and enhancement requests, then work with senior engineers to communicate these effectively to R&D and product management
• Support pre-sales activities by partnering with sales teams to deliver methodology presentations and product demos during competitive evaluations

The Impact You Will Have

• Enable customer tapeouts by resolving simulation and methodology issues that would otherwise delay their schedules
• Help win competitive evaluations by delivering credible technical demonstrations and building trust with customer engineering teams
• Accelerate customer adoption of Synopsys tools by making the deployment process smoother and answering their questions before they become blockers
• Contribute to product improvements by identifying usability gaps and customer pain points based on what you see in real production environments
• Build relationships with customer design teams that create opportunities for broader Synopsys adoption across their organization
• Develop reusable methodologies and solutions that can be leveraged across multiple customer engagements

What You'll Need

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree in EE/CS with 2+ years of relevant experience as a circuit designer or CAD engineer
• Solid understanding of full custom and analog design flow including schematic capture, layout, analog verification, and physical verification
• Hands-on experience with analog or mixed-signal simulation, ideally using SPICE, FastSPICE, or similar tools in a production design environment
• Scripting skills in TCL, Perl, or Python to automate workflows, debug customer setups, and build deployment solutions
• Strong communication skills, you can explain a technical issue clearly to a designer and also summarize the business impact for their manager
• Willingness to travel for customer visits, training sessions, and on-site support as needed

Who You Are

• You can look at a failing simulation and start narrowing down the problem systematically, checking netlist issues, model problems, and convergence settings without guessing randomly
• When a customer describes a problem, you ask clarifying questions to understand their specific setup before proposing solutions
• You are comfortable presenting technical content to a customer audience, even when you know they are evaluating both the product and your credibility
• You stay organized enough to manage multiple customer requests and internal tasks without losing track of commitments you made
• You know when to escalate to a senior engineer and when to dig in and figure something out yourself
• You treat customer issues like problems worth solving thoroughly, not tickets to close quickly, and you follow through until the solution actually works

The Team You'll Be Part Of

You will join the Custom Implementation Platform Applications Engineering team, working closely with sales, product engineering, and R&D to support customers using Synopsys AMS and Custom Design products. This team focuses on enabling analog, mixed-signal, RF, and custom digital design flows, with growing emphasis on cloud-based deployment. You will work alongside experienced applications engineers who can provide guidance on complex technical challenges while you take ownership of customer engagements and build your expertise across the product portfolio.

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.