Applications Engineer, Sr Staff

We Are Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. You Are You have spent years close enough to real chip development to know that IP selection is never just a datasheet comparison. It is about power budgets that shift mid-project, timing constraints that emerge three months into integration, and system architects who need to understand tradeoffs without wading through 400-page specs. You have been in the room when a decision gets made, and you know how to shape that conversation so the right solution actually gets chosen. You are technical enough to debug a timing closure issue or walk through a verification testbench, but you also know when to pull in the right specialist and how to translate what they say into something a customer's program manager can act on. You do not hide behind jargon. You ask the hard questions early, the ones that save everyone three weeks of rework later. Working directly with customers energizes you. Not in a vague "people person" way, but because you genuinely want to see their chip work and you are willing to dig into their architecture, their constraints, and their schedule to make that happen. You have opinions about what good IP integration looks like, and you are not afraid to share them when it matters. At Synopsys, you will work with some of the most advanced SoC teams in the world, and what you help them build will ship in products that matter.

Partner with the sales team to understand customer ASIC and SoC design challenges, then architect IP solutions from the Synopsys portfolio that actually fit their power, performance, area, and schedule constraints Lead technical evaluations with customer engineering teams, coordinating with Synopsys product R&D to provide simulation models, testbenches, documentation, and direct engineering support Conduct design reviews and technical presentations that help customers understand how our IP integrates into their RTL, timing, physical design, and verification flows Serve as the voice of the customer back to Synopsys IP product teams, translating real-world integration issues and feature requests into actionable roadmap input Troubleshoot complex integration issues involving RTL, synthesis, static timing analysis, and mixed-signal interfaces, working across customer and internal engineering teams to resolve them Travel approximately 15-30% to customer sites, sales offices, and engineering centers across Japan and occasionally other regions Build and maintain deep technical relationships with customer architects, design leads, and verification engineers who depend on your guidance to make their projects succeed The Impact You Will Have Enable customer SoC teams to make confident IP decisions earlier in their design cycle, reducing risk and avoiding costly late-stage changes Accelerate customer time to tapeout by ensuring IP integration issues are caught and resolved during evaluation, not during implementation Shape the Synopsys IP roadmap by channeling real customer requirements and market trends directly to product engineering teams Expand Synopsys IP adoption across key market segments in Japan, including mobile, automotive, data center, and IoT,