What You'll Be Doing
Drive PrimeTime adoption and deployment at customer sites, from initial competitive benchmarks through production tape-out support across advanced node designs
Lead technical evaluations that demonstrate PrimeTime's advantages over competing STA tools, translating runtime, capacity, and accuracy metrics into clear business value for design teams and management
Provide hands-on support during critical design phases, including timing closure, ECO iterations, and sign-off, working directly with customer engineers to resolve complex timing, SI, and variation issues
Develop and deliver technical training on PrimeTime workflows, covering timing constraints, multi-mode multi-corner analysis, variation modeling, and integration with synthesis and physical design flows
Collaborate with R&D to communicate customer requirements, reproduce field issues, and influence product roadmap based on real design challenges you see in the field
Build and maintain TCL-based automation scripts and methodologies that improve customer productivity and demonstrate best practices for timing analysis workflows
Act as the technical bridge between customers, sales, marketing, and engineering, translating customer pain points into actionable product feedback and solution strategies
The Impact You Will Have
Enable customers to tape out complex SoCs on schedule by resolving timing bottlenecks that would otherwise cause costly respins or schedule slips
Expand PrimeTime footprint at strategic accounts by proving technical superiority in head-to-head evaluations, directly contributing to revenue growth and competitive wins
Accelerate customer productivity by delivering training and methodology improvements that reduce timing closure cycles from weeks to days
Shape future PrimeTime capabilities by channeling real-world design challenges back to R&D, ensuring the product evolves to meet next-generation design requirements
Build deep technical credibility with customer design teams and management, becoming the trusted advisor they turn to when timing issues threaten project milestones
Reduce support escalations by developing reusable scripts, documentation, and best practices that empower customers to solve common problems independently
Strengthen Synopsys's position as the timing sign-off standard by demonstrating value across the full design flow, from RTL to GDS
What You'll Need
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 10+ years of hands-on experience in ASIC/SoC design or EDA applications, or Master's degree with 8+ years of experience
Deep working knowledge of Synopsys PrimeTime, including hands-on experience with timing analysis, constraint development, and sign-off flows
Strong understanding of timing concepts including setup/hold analysis, clock domain crossing, multi-mode multi-corner scenarios, OCV, AOCV, and signal integrity effects
Proficiency in TCL scripting for automation, analysis, and methodology development in EDA tool environments
Familiarity with the broader digital design flow, including synthesis, place and route, extraction, and ECO methodologies, and how STA fits into each phase
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to both engineers and management, prior customer-facing or field engineering experience is a strong plus
Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed to support evaluations, training, and critical design milestones
Who You Are
You can walk into a customer war room during a timing crisis, look at their reports and setup, and within an hour identify whether the issue is a constraint problem, a tool setting, or a fundamental design issue
You know how to run a competitive benchmark that is both technically rigorous and tells a clear story, you measure what matters and you can explain the results to someone who has never opened PrimeTime
You are comfortable saying 'I don't know, but I'll find out' and then actually following through, often by pulling in the right R&D engineer or digging into the code yourself
You can write TCL that does not just work but that someone else can read and modify six months later, and you have strong opinions about what makes a timing methodology sustainable versus fragile
You have been in enough tape-out cycles to know when to push back on an unrealistic constraint and when to help the team find a creative workaround
You build relationships that last beyond the eval period, customers call you because they trust your judgment, not just because you know the tool
The Team You'll Be Part Of
Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
