Applications Engineer - 45622BR

Application Engineer

Job Description And Requirements

HW assisted verification has become an indispensable part of SoC designs verification with growing designs sizes and complexity.

Synopsys is uniquely positioned to offer the market leading FPGA HW based verification Solutions.

Our Applications Engineers team works with local industry customers from pre-sales stages, towards planning, deployment and ongoing support. We help our customers achieve their HW Verification and SW bring-up targets with our products, while working with R&D teams on improvements and future technologies in that space.

We’re looking for an HW Applications Engineer to join the team.

In this role, you will be part of a team of expert level engineers working with R&D and customers on prototyping systems. As a part of the team, you will be involved in Feature Validation, Product Sign-Off, Customer Support and evaluation. You will become an expert in all aspects of prototyping methodologies. You will also gain expertise in all aspects of prototyping flows including design, partitioning, testing, synthesis, simulation based verification, functional verification, implementation, PAR and FPGA architecture.

You will be involved in defining test strategies and methodologies to continuously improve ease-of use, quality of results and inter-operability with other Synopsys Tools like VCS, DC & Formality and gain expert level knowledge. By adapting to the recognized best practices and policies in Synopsys, you will also become an expert in various processes involved Product Release Cycle starting from Requirement Specification to Product sign-off. You will receive little instructions on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments and projects. You will be responsible for determining and developing recommendations to solutions.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Typically requires a minimum of +3 years of related experience
• Experience in project execution from start to completion contributing to complex aspects of the project
• Expertise in Emulation and/or Prototyping flows, systems, and methodologies
• Strong proficiency in one or more of Verilog, SystemVerilog & VHDL is required.
• Very good understanding of verification concepts, self-checking test benches with experience in any functional simulator is required.
• Very good understanding of SW/HW debug methodologies with prior experience in any of standard SW/HW debug tools (Identify, ChipScope, SignalTap, Logic Analyzer etc.)
• Good understanding of synthesis and timing analysis concepts is required
• Experience in any of the scripting language is required
• Complex Problem solving and debugging skills are essential
• Good knowledge in Simulation flows, Assertion, DPI and Transactors
• Knowledge about formal verification will be a plus
• Knowledge in Synopsys Solutions and Tools like Zebu, HAPS, VCS, Verdi, Zebu, ProtoCompiler, Synplify, VCS, DC, Formality will be a plus
• Knowledge and previous experience with Xilinx & Altera architecture and Tool chains will be a plusStrong communication skills and ability to interact with customers as well as peers is required
• Knowledge of key protocol’s like Ethernet, PCIe, AMBA, UART, DDR, and their usage in SoCs is a big advantage.
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Review of project specifications for new features
• Feature Validation against product releases
• Development of regression tests
• Regular evaluations of product releases
• Development and delivery of product documents
• Provide post-sale support
• Working with the sales teams on pre-sales campaigns
• Developing training materials and providing trainings for AEs and Customers
• Early Customer Evaluations Involvement with customers for evaluating the new features of FPGA tool in early stage
• Use gender neutral language
  
  

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.

Our Silicon Design & Verification business is all about building high-performance silicon chips—faster. We’re the world’s leading provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon chips. And we design the next-generation processes and models needed to manufacture those chips. We enable our customers to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance—eliminating months off their project schedules.

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.