Applications Engineering, Scientist

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You are a visionary technical leader at the intersection of AI and electronic design automation, with deep expertise in EDA, chip design, and optimization algorithms. You have architected and delivered production-scale systems that solve complex design challenges across billions of gates and multiple silicon generations.

You bring strong knowledge of digital implementation, including synthesis, placement, routing, and timing analysis, along with hands‑on experience applying AI/ML techniques to real-world workflows. You can bridge established implementation flows with emerging autonomous agent systems, designing solutions that are scalable, adaptive, and production‑ready.

You are passionate about human‑agent collaboration and building AI-driven systems that are transparent, controllable, and trustworthy. You communicate architectural vision clearly across technical and executive audiences and are motivated by the opportunity to redefine how advanced chips are designed.

• Defining the architectural vision for agentic AI within Fusion Compiler, shaping system design and interfaces between autonomous agents and core implementation engines.
• Architecting advanced multi‑agent systems capable of autonomously navigating billion‑gate design spaces, setting strategies, allocating resources, and recovering from dead ends.
• Designing the reasoning and planning layer for agents, enabling decomposition of complex objectives (timing closure, congestion mitigation, power optimization) into actionable sub‑goals that adapt to dynamic design challenges.
• Pioneering human‑agent collaboration models that empower designers to set intent and constraints, while agents handle combinatorial optimization with transparency and cont rollability.
• Driving seamless integration with Fusion Compiler’s synthesis, placement, CTS, routing, and optimization engines to ensure agents act effectively without disrupting proven core algorithms.
• Shaping the learning infrastructure that enables agents to improve across runs, designs, and technology nodes, embedding institutional knowledge into the tool itself.
• Influencing Synopsys’s broader AI/EDA strategy by publishing at leading venues, engaging with key customers, and mentoring the next generation of AI‑EDA engineers.

• Revolutionizing digital implementation by replacing manual optimization passes with autonomous, reasoning agents that drive the entire synthesis‑to‑signoff continuum.
• Enabling faster, more robust chip design cycles, reducing time‑to‑market and empowering customers to tackle increasingly complex architectures.
• Establishing new industry standards for AI‑driven EDA workflows, positioning Synopsys as the undisputed leader in agentic chip design.
• Delivering technology that directly supports the next generation of smartphones, hyperscale data centers, and AI training clusters.
• Building scalable systems that handle massive state spaces, strict correctness requirements, and multi‑objective optimization under hard constraints.
• Driving customer engagement and satisfaction by delivering transparent, controllable, and trustworthy AI‑powered tools.

• 15+ years of experience in EDA, VLSI CAD, chip design, or adjacent fields, with deep expertise in at least one of: logic synthesis, physical design, static timing analysis, or optimization algorithms.
• Proven leadership in defining and shipping architectural solutions at scale, distinguishing prototypes from production systems.
• Strong foundation in AI/ML, including LLM‑based agents, reinforcement learning, search/planning, and retrieval‑augmented generation.
• Deep understanding of digital implementation challenges, including timing graphs, placement legality, routing congestion, clock tree trade‑offs, and power grid integrity.
• Experience designing systems that operate at scale (109+ objects), with strict correctness and multi‑objective optimization.

• Visionary thinker with a passion for redefining industry paradigms.
• Exceptional communicator, able to articulate architectural visions to diverse audiences.
• Collaborative mentor and leader, inspiring teams and fostering innovation.
• Analytical…