Staff Application Engineer – ECO Timing

About the role

Staff Application Engineer – ECO Timing at Synopsys (incl. Ansys). Work directly with customers and partners to diagnose and resolve complex timing, extraction, and design closure issues on live silicon projects using Synopsys STA, ECO.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with R&D teams to shape product roadmaps, validate new features, and translate real-world customer pain points into actionable technical specifications
• Deploy best practices for timing signoff, parasitic annotation, and physical design methodologies to help customers hit aggressive PPA targets on advanced nodes
• Support customer project execution from early design phases through tapeout, providing hands-on guidance on constraint setup, timing closure
• Partner with Sales and customer technical managers to identify design bottlenecks, scope technical solutions
• Script automation solutions in TCL, Perl, and other languages to streamline customer workflows and reduce turnaround time on critical design tasks

What you need

• 6–8 yrs of experience
• VLSI
• Perl
• Customer success
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E.