Solutions Engineer, Staff

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.

Our Silicon Design & Verification business is all about building high-performance silicon chips—faster. We’re the world’s leading provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon chips. And we design the next-generation processes and models needed to manufacture those chips. We enable our customers to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance—eliminating months off their project schedules.

The Custom Design Solutions Team is part of Synopsys Circuit Design & TCAD Solutions Group. We work with top-tier Synopsys customers to deploy high-quality Custom/Analog Design Solutions and Flows on the latest process nodes.  The team works across the spectrum of design including front-end, simulation, back-end, and verification flows. The team believes in fostering interest and opportunities to work in different aspects of the design spectrum. You will get the right platform to apply design knowledge and architect and develop Custom Design solutions.

Staff Solutions Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Research new and innovative solutions to drive our leadership in AI technologies.
• Identify target usages and flows that can benefit and leverage ML / AI applications for customers, thus driving engagement and sales.
• Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Promote adoption of Synopsys Custom Design Platform to new Customers by delivering presentations and demos
• Work with Customers to understand their flow requirements and map them to features within Synopsys Custom Design Platform
• Design and develop Custom scripts for features specific to a given customer or to provide a quick solution while the features are being enhanced.
• Own the customer relationship, i.e. work with R&D and other teams to make sure Customer requirements are well understood and track the development of features required by the Customer.

Job Requirements

• BS/MS in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering
• 15+ years of experience creating and supporting custom design flows using Custom Compiler or equivalent industry standard tools
• Custom design implementation tools and flows with emphasis on current ML/AL solutions.
• Artificial intelligence and Machine learning technologies including, usage of reinforcement learning, predicting chip congestion and building learning models.
• Hands-on experience in coding medium-sized software solutions for custom design problems
• Expertise in one or more areas like:
  • Advanced custom layout flows for FinFET process
  • Simulation environments and simulator data handling
  • Parasitic extraction techniques
  • Mixed Signal Design with custom design and digital PnR tools
  • Memory design and flow development
  • Automatic Custom Placement and Routing
• Expertise in one or more scripting/programming languages like TCL/Python/Perl/SKILL

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.