Staff Applications Engineer - ECO Timing

What You'll Be Doing

• Work directly with customers and partners to diagnose and resolve complex timing, extraction, and design closure issues on live silicon projects using Synopsys STA, ECO, and P&R tools
• Collaborate with R&D teams to shape product roadmaps, validate new features, and translate real-world customer pain points into actionable technical specifications
• Deploy best practices for timing signoff, parasitic annotation, and physical design methodologies to help customers hit aggressive PPA targets on advanced nodes
• Deliver technical training and product demos to customer engineering teams and Synopsys field staff, covering STA flows, ECO strategies, and design implementation techniques
• Support customer project execution from early design phases through tapeout, providing hands-on guidance on constraint setup, timing closure, and multi-die design challenges
• Partner with Sales and customer technical managers to identify design bottlenecks, scope technical solutions, and communicate product value at both engineering and executive levels
• Script automation solutions in TCL, Perl, and other languages to streamline customer workflows and reduce turnaround time on critical design tasks

The Impact You Will Have

• Enable customers to achieve faster design closure and meet tapeout schedules on complex, multi-die designs at 5nm and below
• Reduce customer project turnaround times by introducing engineering techniques and automation that eliminate manual bottlenecks
• Influence the development roadmap of Synopsys timing and ECO products by providing R&D with actionable feedback from real customer engagements
• Build Synopsys' reputation as the trusted partner for timing signoff and design closure across the semiconductor industry in India and beyond
• Empower customer teams and internal field engineers through knowledge transfer, training, and technical mentorship that raises the bar for design execution
• Accelerate adoption of new Synopsys product releases by being the technical bridge between early access programs and production customer deployments
• Help customers optimize Power, Performance, and Area outcomes that directly affect the competitiveness and success of their silicon products

What You'll Need

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 5-8 years of hands-on experience in semiconductor design, with direct work in Place & Route, Static Timing Analysis, extraction, and Engineering Change Order flows
• Deep technical expertise with timing and physical constraint methodologies, parasitic annotation, and timing analysis for complex IC designs
• Proven experience executing silicon chip projects through physical design and timing closure, especially on advanced technology nodes like 7nm, 5nm, or 3nm
• Strong scripting skills in TCL and Perl, with the ability to automate design tasks and build custom flows
• Solid understanding of ASIC design flow, VLSI fundamentals, and CAD engineering principles across the full design cycle
• Experience working directly with customers or cross-functional teams in a technical support, applications engineering, or field engineering capacity is a strong plus

Who You Are

• You can walk into a room with a customer's design team, understand their timing violations in the first 20 minutes, and outline a closure plan before you leave
• You explain complex technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and management, without losing the nuance or oversimplifying the problem
• You are proactive about solving problems, you do not wait to be told what to do when a customer design is stuck, you dig in and figure it out
• You stay organized and focused when managing multiple customer engagements, product validation tasks, and internal collaboration threads at the same time
• You are genuinely curious about new technologies and design methodologies, and you actively seek out ways to improve your skills and expand your technical toolkit
• You thrive on collaboration and knowledge sharing, whether that is training a customer team on best practices or working with R&D to refine a product feature