{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"eb2f2045724a4860c9faefea","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/eb2f2045724a4860c9faefea","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/eb2f2045724a4860c9faefea","title":"Staff Application Engineer","description":"Austin, Texas, United States\nCategory Engineering Hire Type Employee Job ID 18835 Base Salary Range $112000-$168000 Date posted 09/29/2026\n\nWe Are\n\nSynopsys 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.\n\nYou Are\n\nYou have spent years in the verification trenches and learned that the hardest part is not running the emulator, it is making it fit the way a customer actually works. When a testbench does not behave as expected or a model hangs three hours into a regression, you do not guess. You dig in, trace signals, check the logs, and work the problem until you understand what is actually happening.\n\nYou are comfortable sitting with a customer's verification team, absorbing their constraints, their schedule pressure, their testbench quirks, and walking out with a deployment plan that actually works for them. You know the difference between a solution that looks good in a slide deck and one that survives contact with a real SoC project.\n\nDebugging across hardware models, software stacks, and verification environments does not intimidate you. It energizes you. You ask the right questions, coordinate across R&D and customer teams without losing the thread, and you do not escalate until you have exhausted what you can do yourself.\n\nAt Synopsys, you will work with customers running some of the most complex verification projects in the industry, and the solutions you help implement will directly affect their ability to tape out on schedule.\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nWork directly with customers to deploy and optimize emulation solutions for SoC and ASIC verification projects\nDesign emulation strategies that fit the specific architecture, testbench, and schedule constraints of each customer engagement\nDebug complex issues that span hardware models, software interactions, and testbench integration, working with customers and internal R&D to resolve them\nBuild and deliver technical enablement sessions and workshops that help customers and internal teams get more out of the platform\nCollaborate with product engineering teams to surface customer requirements, workflow gaps, and feature requests that shape future platform releases\nMentor engineers on the team, helping them build deeper technical skills in emulation methodologies and customer engagement\nThe Impact You Will Have\nShorten verification cycles for customers working on high-stakes semiconductor projects where schedule pressure is constant\nIncrease platform adoption and effectiveness by helping customers implement workflows that actually fit their design and verification environments\nInfluence product roadmaps by translating real customer pain points into actionable feedback for R&D teams\nBuild long-term customer relationships grounded in technical credibility and reliable execution\nRaise the technical capability of the applications team by sharing what you learn and helping others work through difficult customer scenarios\nStrengthen Synopsys' position as the go-to provider for emulation and verification solutions in the semiconductor industry\nWhat You'll Need\nB.E/B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 7+ years in applications engineering, hardware verification, or emulation support roles, or M.S/M.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 5+ years in similar roles\nHands-on experience with emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu, Mentor Veloce, or Cadence Palladium\nStrong working knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL and verification methodologies including UVM or OVM\nDemonstrated ability to debug and optimize interactions between hardware models, testbenches, and emulation infrastructure\nSolid understanding of SoC and ASIC architecture, including how design flows and verification environments are structured\nExperience with Python, Perl, or TCL for automation and workflow scripting\nExperience with customer-facing technical work is a strong plus\nWho You Are\nYou approach problems methodically and do not stop at the surface-level symptom, you keep going until you understand what is actually happening\nYou can explain a technical tradeoff or a debug strategy to a customer engineer in a way that makes sense without oversimplifying the complexity\nYou work well across teams, coordinating with R&D, sales, and customer engineering groups without losing track of what needs to happen next\nYou are organized enough to manage multiple customer engagements at once and responsive enough that people know they can count on you\nYou are comfortable with ambiguity and can make progress even when requirements are still being figured out\nYou genuinely enjoy helping other engineers get better at what they do, whether that is a customer or someone on your own team\nThe Team You'll Be Part Of\n\nYou will join a team of applications engineers and technical specialists focused on delivering emulation and verification solutions to customers. The team works closely with product R&D, sales, and customer engineering organizations, and the work spans everything from early-stage evaluations to production deployment and ongoing optimization. The group values technical depth, collaboration, and the kind of problem-solving that makes a real difference in customer outcomes.\n\nLI-CM1\n\nAt Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.\n\nIn addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. 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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.\n\nYou Are\n\nYou have spent years in the verification trenches and learned that the hardest part is not running the emulator, it is making it fit the way a customer actually works. When a testbench does not behave as expected or a model hangs three hours into a regression, you do not guess. You dig in, trace signals, check the logs, and work the problem until you understand what is actually happening.\n\nYou are comfortable sitting with a customer's verification team, absorbing their constraints, their schedule pressure, their testbench quirks, and walking out with a deployment plan that actually works for them. 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The team works closely with product R&D, sales, and customer engineering organizations, and the work spans everything from early-stage evaluations to production deployment and ongoing optimization. The group values technical depth, collaboration, and the kind of problem-solving that makes a real difference in customer outcomes.\n\nLI-CM1\n\nAt Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.\n\nIn addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. 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