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General Information

Job Title
Senior Applications Engineer
Job ID
5956
Country
Armenia
City
Yerevan
Date Posted
11-Sep-2024
Job Category
Engineering
Job Subcategory
Applications Engineering
Hire Type
Employee
Remote Eligible
No

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements
The primary focus of the Application Engineer is to drive increased usage of SNPS leading Static Timing Analysis tool, Primetime in both pre-sale and post-sale capacity. Pre-sales tasks include competitive benchmarks and evaluation, articulating the superiority to our customer’s design team and management. Post-sales tasks include customer training, tapeout support and advance collaboration initiatives for product enhancements. The job involves working closely with users/customers and multiple organizations like R&D, marketing, sales among others.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Supports customer engagements via remote technical interactions (including short on-site visits when required) providing demos, supporting evaluations, resolving technical problems, addressing attractive challenges and regularly communicating status during the engagement working closely with the local Synopsys technical team.
  • In line with the business targets, closely works with the customer design engineers to help them achieve their design goals by making best usage of Synopsys tools-flows and influencing their design methodology accordingly.
  • Collaborates with the Sales and Product teams to identify and understand customer’s technical design challenges and implements appropriate solutions leveraging the broad Synopsys EDA tools portfolio.
  • Educates our customers on how the EDA products meet their needs, helping them evaluate our solution (with the support of Product R&D teams) relative to their requirements.
  • Influences the EDA products development roadmap by communicating customer needs to the Product teams.
Key Qualifications:
  • BS/MS in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
  • 7+ years of industry experience combining tech skills of design execution and supporting CAD.
  • Deep domain knowledge in STA and participated in multiple chip tapeouts preferably at 16nm or below nodes. Design experience should include timing closure, eco flows and methodology expertise.
  • Deep Synopsys STA tool, PrimeTime experience and knowledge are required.
  • Knowledge of timing corners/modes, process variations and signal integrity related issues are required.
  • Ability to travel to visit customers, sales and engineering teams, if needed.
  • Ability to work as part of a global team, collaborating tightly with peers across multiple geographies.
  • Proven technical communication (oral and written) skills.
  • Fluent in English.
Preferred Experience
  • Familiarity with synthesis, Physical design, extraction and ECO methodology is desired
  • Solid tcl knowledge is preferred.
  • Prior customer facing role is a plus.
Our Customer Success Group is all about delivering high value solutions to our customers while driving growth.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of applications engineering team that supports the industry's top customers on Digital Implementation domain locally and in Europe/Israel regions.


At Synopsys, we’re 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.

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