Applications Engineer

As an Applications Engineer you will partner with our customers to design solutions for their ASIC/SoC designs using Synopsys IP (Intellectual Property) portfolio.
This is a pre-sales role, and it is perfect for someone who has a mix of great technical and interpersonal skills and, is committed to the success of our customers.
General responsibilities include:

• Collaboration with the FAE team to identify & understand our customers’ technical challenges
• Develop appropriate solutions & collateral for customers
• Educating our FAEs on how the IP products meet their needs and helping them evaluate it (with support from other teams) relative to their customers’ requirements
• Influencing the IP product development roadmap by communicating customer needs to the product engineering teams

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Familiarity with state-of-art SoC design implementation:
  
  • RTL design and verification using Verilog or SystemVerilog
  • Synthesis and static timing analysis, physical design flow, testbench creation and simulation, some familiarity with analog/mixed-signal design and verification flows, and basic understanding of package and PCB design flows and technologies
• Strong technical communication skills:
  
  • Ability to understand and present complex technical requirements, problems, and solutions concisely in verbal and written communications
  • Ability to analyze, summarize and generate status updates from technical data
  • Ability to organize, conduct and co-ordinate meetings involving multiple teams internal and external

 
Nice to Have:

• Understanding of latest SoC architectures and system-level design practices for one or more market segments (networking, AI, automotive) particularly from IP requirements perspective
• Prior experience or technical familiarity with interface and connectivity protocols, e.g., UCIe, Ethernet, PCIe/CXL, DDR, Ethernet, and AMBA.
• Prior experience in selecting, using, designing, or supporting internal or external IP
• Prior experience in an application engineering or another direct customer facing role

 


Our Silicon IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC—faster. We offer the world’s broadest portfolio of silicon IP—predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk. 
 
At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.
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