Senior Staff Applications Engineer - Timing Signoff

About the Role

You have spent years deep in the signoff trenches, where timing closure is not theoretical and tape‑out deadlines are real. You know that the difference between a customer hitting their schedule and missing it often comes down to how well they understand the tool, the methodology, and the trade‑offs they are making at 2 a.m. three days before signoff. You are the engineer who can walk into a customer war room, look at their Prime Time reports, and within an hour identify what is actually broken versus what just looks broken.

• Provide hands‑on technical support for customers during tape‑out, working directly on Prime Time, Prime Shield, Prime Closure, Prime Power, Red Hawk‑SC, and HSPICE signoff flows.
• Drive adoption of newly developed features by running beta evaluations, building proof‑of‑concept demos, and translating product capabilities into customer workflows.
• Diagnose complex timing, power, and signoff issues across customer designs, working with both the customer engineering team and Synopsys R&D to resolve blockers.
• Capture customer requirements from real project pain points and translate them into actionable enhancement requests for product teams.
• Develop and deliver technical training content and presentations for customers and internal teams on signoff methodologies and tool usage.
• Review product documentation and contribute technical feedback to improve accuracy and usability for field deployment.
• Collaborate with global applications and R&D teams to align on customer escalations, feature priorities, and methodology best practices.

You will directly influence whether customers meet their tape‑out schedules by solving the signoff problems that would otherwise delay or derail their projects. Your technical guidance will shape how leading semiconductor companies adopt and deploy timing and power signoff flows at scale, and you will be the voice of the customer within Synopsys, ensuring that product enhancements are grounded in real‑world design challenges.

The training and demos you create will become the reference material that hundreds of engineers rely on to learn and apply these tools correctly, and your ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues will reduce customer escalations and build long‑term trust in Synopsys solutions.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8 to 15 years of hands‑on experience developing, deploying, or supporting timing analysis and signoff tools and methodologies.
• Deep working knowledge of static timing analysis concepts and signoff flows using Prime Time.
• Experience with power analysis and signoff tools such as Prime Power or Red Hawk‑SC.
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills across complex digital design environments, including netlist analysis, constraint debugging, and correlation issues.
• Proven ability to work directly with customers in a technical consulting or applications engineering capacity.
• Experience with SPICE‑level simulation tools like HSPICE is a plus, particularly in the context of signoff correlation.

• You can take a vague customer complaint and methodically trace it back to the actual root cause, whether it is in the constraints, the model, or the flow.
• You are comfortable presenting technical content to a room full of customer engineers and answering hard questions on the spot without deflecting.
• You do not need someone to tell you what to prioritize during a customer escalation; you assess severity, coordinate across teams, and drive it to closure.
• You can write a technical demo or training deck that is clear enough for someone to follow without you in the room.
• You push back when a feature request does not make sense or when a customer issue is actually a methodology problem, not a tool problem.
• You work well with people across functions and geographies, keeping everyone aligned without dropping threads.

• Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits tailored to your needs.
• Competitive salary and performance‑based incentives.
• Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.