Applications Engineering, Sr Architect- RTL2GDS

You Are:

You are a highly experienced technical leader and trusted customer advisor with deep expertise in digital implementation flows. You bring a strong track record of driving customer success, influencing design methodologies, and delivering measurable business impact in advanced-node semiconductor environments.

You thrive in customer-facing roles, balancing strategic engagement with hands-on technical problem solving. You are comfortable leading complex benchmarks, guiding customers through challenges, and aligning technical solutions with business outcomes. You are also a collaborative mentor who elevates team capability and works seamlessly with account teams, including AEs and cross-functional partners.

With your strong background in RTL-to-GDS implementation and EDA workflows, you can quickly diagnose issues, optimize performance, and guide customers to successful tapeouts. You are passionate about innovation, including the application of AI-driven methodologies in chip design.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead customer engagements and benchmark activities to drive adoption, increase usage share, and grow revenue.
• Serve as a primary technical interface for key accounts, aligning Synopsys solutions to customer needs and business objectives.
• Coordinate engagement logistics, drive regular sync meetings, and provide clear status updates to stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Account AEs and contribute to account strategy and opportunity development.
• Mentor and guide junior AEs and engineers, strengthening overall team performance.
• Apply deep expertise in RTL-to-GDS flows to support customer designs, including synthesis, physical implementation, and signoff.
• Drive solutions for timing closure, PPA optimization, and advanced-node challenges.
• Debug complex design and flow issues, providing hands-on technical leadership.
• Influence customer methodologies, including adoption of AI-driven design flows and automation.
  
  

The Impact You Will Have:

• Expand Synopsys footprint within strategic accounts through successful technical engagements.
• Accelerate customer design cycles and improve design outcomes at advanced nodes.
• Strengthen long-term customer relationships by delivering consistent technical excellence and business value.
  
  

What You’ll Need:

• 20 years of experience in EDA / semiconductor design and implementation.
• Proven hands-on expertise across RTL-to-GDS, including:
• Synthesis
• Physical implementation (place & route)
• Signoff: physical verification, extraction, STA
• Strong skills in:
• Timing closure and PPA optimization
• Advanced process node design methodologies
• Experience with Fusion Compiler is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of formal verification and DFT.
• Strong debugging and scripting skills (e.g., Tcl, Python).
• Understanding of AI/ML applications or AI agents in design flows is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and executive stakeholders.
  
  

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in customer-facing or pre-sales engineering roles within EDA.
• Demonstrated success driving benchmarks, evaluations, and production tapeouts.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional, global team environment.