Applications Engineer, Staff

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.

In this role, the Application Engineer works for key internal programs and customers’ project, and successfully executes the project against established commitments.  Acts as the focal point of contact and manages all external and internal communications to cross-functional teams spanning geographical and organizational boundaries. Plans and directs schedules; identifies and escalates issues; drives problems to resolution; identifies and manages risk.

The Application Engineer must have a proven track record in project execution and overall project management with an engineering background.   The candidate must be able to organize interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project on schedule and with high quality. The applicant must be able to manage multiple projects, recognize and mitigate risks, and work proactively on contingency plans. The candidate must be process-oriented with an emphasis on clear and concise communication.

Will work cross-functionally with internal development teams (Sales, Marketing, FAE, CAE, and R&D) and have exposure and visibility on a global scale throughout the organization.  In this role, the Application Engineer acts as the main interface of Synopsys with our targeted customers and within our internal development teams to ensure we deliver to our customer requirements to meet their goals and targets.

Position Requirements:

• Candidate must have a solid background and proven track record in technical project management
• Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised and to successfully drive and complete complex programs
• The candidate should possess excellent working knowledge of PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Exceptional verbal/written communication, leadership, interpersonal, and teamwork skills are required to succeed in this role.

Preferred Requirements:

• BSEE/MSEE or equivalent with 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Candidate having technical project execution experience highly desired
• Previous experience and expertise in a customer facing role (Field Application Engineer, etc) is also highly desirable

Our Test Tool Consulting business is all about deploy state of art DFT technology to various customers. We coach, demonstrate, build, execute latest DFT flow and methodologies, delivering them to customers and helping customer to realizing quality design within time to market.