Senior Staff Applications Engineer - Timing Signoff

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 spent years deep in the signoff trenches, where timing closure is not theoretical and tape-out deadlines are real. You know that the difference between a customer hitting their schedule and missing it often comes down to how well they understand the tool, the methodology, and the tradeoffs they are making at 2am three days before signoff. You are the engineer who can walk into a customer war room, look at their PrimeTime reports, and within an hour identify what is actually broken versus what just looks broken.

You do not just answer questions, you diagnose the real problem underneath the question. When a customer says "the tool is slow," you know how to figure out whether it is their netlist, their constraints, their flow, or actually the tool. You have built demos, written documentation, and delivered technical training that engineers actually reference months later. Working across time zones and with global teams does not slow you down, it is just how the work gets done. At Synopsys, you will work directly with the teams building the tools and the customers depending on them to ship silicon.

What You'll Be Doing

Provide hands-on technical support for customers during tape-out, working directly on PrimeTime, PrimeShield, PrimeClosure, PrimePower, RedHawk-SC, and HSPICE signoff flows

Drive adoption of newly developed features by running beta evaluations, building proof-of-concept demos, and translating product capabilities into customer workflows

Diagnose complex timing, power, and signoff issues across customer designs, working with both the customer engineering team and Synopsys R&D to resolve blockers

Capture customer requirements from real project pain points and translate them into actionable enhancement requests for product teams

Develop and deliver technical training content and presentations for customers and internal teams on signoff methodologies and tool usage

Review product documentation and contribute technical feedback to improve accuracy and usability for field deployment

Collaborate with global applications and R&D teams to align on customer escalations, feature priorities, and methodology best practices

The Impact You Will Have

You will directly influence whether customers meet their tape-out schedules by solving the signoff problems that would otherwise delay or derail their projects

Your technical guidance will shape how leading semiconductor companies adopt and deploy timing and power signoff flows at scale

You will be the voice of the customer inside Synopsys, ensuring that product enhancements are grounded in real-world design challenges

The training and demos you create will become the reference material that hundreds of engineers rely on to learn and apply these tools correctly

You will help prove out new features in beta, giving R&D the feedback they need to ship capabilities that actually work in production environments

Your ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues will reduce customer escalations and build long-term trust in Synopsys solutions

You will enable faster, more reliable signoff across some of the most advanced semiconductor designs being built today

What You'll Need

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

8 to 15 years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, or supporting timing analysis and signoff tools and methodologies

Deep working knowledge of static timing analysis concepts and signoff flows using PrimeTime

Experience with power analysis and signoff tools such as PrimePower or RedHawk-SC

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across complex digital design environments, including netlist analysis, constraint debugging, and correlation issues

Proven ability to work directly with customers in a technical consulting or applications engineering capacity

Experience with SPICE-level simulation tools like HSPICE is a plus, particularly in the context of signoff correlation

Who You Are

You can take a vague customer complaint like "timing does not match" and methodically work backward to find the actual root cause, whether it is in the constraints, the model, or the flow

You are comfortable presenting technical content to a room full of customer engineers and answering hard questions on the spot without deflecting

You do not need someone to tell you what to prioritize during a customer escalation, you assess severity, coordinate across teams, and drive it to closure

You can write a technical demo or training deck that is clear enough for someone to follow without you in the room

You push back when a feature request does not make sense or when a customer issue is actually a methodology problem, not a tool problem

You work well with people across functions and geographies, R&D in one time zone, customers in another, and you keep everyone aligned without dropping threads

The Team You'll Be Part Of

Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.