Applications Engineering, Staff Engineer

At Synopsys, we are 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.
 
Business Area Description
 
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.

• In the role of Senior Application Engineer (AE), you will be.
• Working on latest Synopsys implementation technologies (Machine Learning, Physical Synthesis, Multi Source CTS etc ) to solve complex PPA challenges Synopsys customers face.
• Working towards benchmarks to displace competition implementation solutions.
• Working on developing and debugging RTL-GDS implementation methodologies and flows.
• Providing technical solutions by identifying the design and/or EDA tool issues and providing appropriate solutions for customers.
• Effectively translate the findings into requirements for R&D to improve both tool behaviors with enhancements as adaptive long-term solutions.
• Involved in the deployment of new technologies on the latest EDA versions and enabling customers to migrate to newer versions achieving the best PPA.
• Coming up with proactive knowledge of customers' pain point and come up with innovative solutions to address the same.
• Closely interacting with Synopsys R&D team and product development team to develop future technologies.
• This role requires you to act as customer advocate while talking to in-house R&D and be a product brand ambassador while engaging with customers.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in Physical Implementation RTL-GDS. Experience in exclusively debugging and resolving synth & PnR implementation challenges.
• Candidate must have good exposure to methodology changes to achieve targeted PPA metrics for complex designs.
• Proficiency in Synopsys implementation tools is an advantage.
• The person must be self-motivated and dedicated with excellent debug skills.
• Requires proficiency in scripting (tcl / unix / perl).

In this role you would be :
Working on advanced technologies and working on varied design complexities to meet PPA goal, work closely with R&D teams on specific feature enhancement, tool issues. You will be building flow/methodology expertise in full R2G flow and also soft skills.
 
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