Hiring: Staff Application Engineer- Physical Design Company: Synopsys Inc Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 13:48:01 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : ASIC, Node.js, Product Management, R About the job Experience: •7+ years of hands-on ASIC physical design experience, or Master's degree with 5+ years Required Skills: •At Synopsys, you will be the technical bridge between our tools and the customers building the chips that power everything. •The Impact You Will Have Qualifications: •You can walk into a customer war room where timing is failing by 500ps at sign-off and quickly triage whether it is a methodology issue, a tool setting, or a fundamental design problem •Comfortable context-switching between multiple customer engagements, you manage priorities without dropping threads or losing technical depth •You explain complex tradeoffs like CTS topology choices or placement density targets in ways that make sense to a design lead who needs to make a decision today •Customer-focused without being a pushover, you push back when a request does not align with best practices and offer a better path forward •You document your work clearly enough that another engineer or the customer can pick up where you left off without a two-hour handoff call •Energized by teaching, you genuinely enjoy the moment when a customer engineer understands why their flow was suboptimal and how to fix it going forward Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!