Applications Engineer, Staff

41446BR
- FRANCE - Wissous

**Job Description and Requirements**

**Senior IP Presales Applications Engineer**

Flexible location: UK, Germany or France**Job Description and Requirements**
- Working with customers to develop solutions for their ASIC/SoC designs using the Synopsys IP portfolio.
- This is a pre-sales role - perfect for someone who has ASIC/SoC design experience.
- Great interpersonal skills and is committed to the success of our customers.
- Working across various market segments, designs, foundries (TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries.) and processes ranging from 3nm to 65nm.

**General responsibilities include**:

- Collaborating with the sales & marketing team to identify and understand our customers’ technical & business challenges.
- Develop appropriate strategies & solutions for customers, leveraging the broad Synopsys IP portfolio.
- Educating our customers on how the IP products meet their needs, and helping them evaluate it (with support from the product R&D teams) relative to their requirements.
- Influencing the IP product development roadmap by communicating customer needs to the product R&D teams.
- Supporting the engagements via on-site or remote technical interactions: Providing demos, supporting evaluations, resolving technical problems, addressing competitive challenges, and regularly communicating status during the engagement.

**Requirements**:

- Typically requires BSEE with 6+ years of relevant experience, or MSEE with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Good understanding of latest SoC architectures and system-level design practices for one or more market segments (HPC, mobile, storage, automotive, networking, IoT).
- Familiarity with state-of-art SoC design implementation:

- RTL design and verification using Verilog or System Verilog
- Synthesis and static timing analysis, physical design flow, test bench creation and simulation.
- Some familiarity with analog/mixed-signal design and verification flows.
- Basic understanding of package and PCB design flows and technologies.
- Travel within Europe and worldwide (~ 15-30%) required to visit customers, sales, and engineering locations.
- Strong technical communication skills:

- Ability to understand and present complex technical requirements, problems, and solutions concisely in verbal and written communications.
- Ability to analyze, summarize and generate status updates from technical data.
- Ability to organize, conduct and co-ordinate meetings involving multiple teams internal and external.

**Nice to Have**:

- Prior experience or technical familiarity with interface and connectivity protocols, e.g., PCIe, DDR, USB, MIPI, HDMI, SATA, Ethernet, and AMBA.
- Prior experience in selecting, using, designing, or supporting internal or external IP.

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.
- Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability._
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**Job Category**
- Engineering

**Country**
- France

**Job Subcategory**
- Applications Engineering

**Hire Type**
- Employee