Senior FPGA Design Application Engineer

Synopsys Inc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys Inc. in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Senior FPGA Design Engineer to join the Application Engineers team. You will provide technical support for Zebu Emulation and Protocompiler Prototyping, migrate designs to new software releases, and deploy new features on live customer designs.

The role requires hands-on FPGA logic design with HDL, FPGA back-end flows, and scripting for automation. You will train customers, collaborate with HAV R&D, and assist pre-sales while traveling to customer

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Electronics Engineering with 2-3 years of experience, or Masters in Electronics Engineering with 2 years, specifically in emulation or prototyping environments.
• Hands-on experience with logic design and implementation using FPGAs, including synthesis, place and route, and timing closure.
• Strong working knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL, including the ability to read, debug, and modify RTL written by others.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to global customers using Synopsys Zebu Emulation and Protocompiler Prototyping software, troubleshooting issues across partitioning, synthesis, place and route, and hardware debug.
• Work directly with customers to migrate their designs to new software releases, ensuring compatibility and resolving any regressions or performance issues that surface.
• Deploy new software features on live customer designs, helping them adopt capabilities like advanced partitioning algorithms, new debug modes, or updated FPGA target support.
• Deliver technical training sessions to customers, ranging from basic tool usage to advanced workflows for multi-FPGA partitioning and hardware-software co-verification.
• Collaborate with Synopsys HAV R&D teams to report customer issues, provide reproducible test cases, and advocate for product improvements based on real-world usage patterns.
• Support pre-sales evaluations by running customer designs through the Synopsys emulation and prototyping flow, demonstrating performance and identifying potential adoption blockers.
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for onsite support, training, or critical issue resolution

Skills

FPGA design

HDL (Verilog/SV/VHDL)

RTL debugging

Synthesis & P&R

Xilinx/Altera tools

Emulation/prototyping

Python/Tcl scripting

HW-SW integration

Education

B.E. Electronics Engineering

M.E./M.Tech in Electronics Engineering

Tools

Synopsys Protocompiler

Zebu Emulation

Synopsys PCIe/AXI tooling

Scripting (Python/Tcl)

Job description

We are looking for experienced Senior FPGA Design Engineer - Application Engineers for our Bangalore Application Engineering team. Does this sound like a good role for you?

• Experience : 2yrs to 3yrs
• Bachelors in Electronics Engineering with 2-3years of experience, or Master's in Electronics Engineering with 2 years, specifically in emulation or prototyping environments
• Hands-on experience with logic design and implementation using FPGAs, including synthesis, place and route, and timing closure
• Strong working knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL, including the ability to read, debug, and modify RTL written by others
• Practical experience with FPGA architecture and back-end implementation flows, including understanding of resource utilization, clock domain crossing, and design partitioning
• Exposure to Xilinx or Altera synthesis tools is a plus, as is familiarity with Synopsys Prototyping or Emulation hardware and software
• Experience with interface protocols like PCIe, AXI, UART, or I2C is a plus, particularly in the context of hardware-software integration
• Scripting experience in Python, Tcl, or shell is desirable for automating workflows and analyzing log files
• Job responsibilities:
• Provide technical support to global customers using Synopsys Zebu Emulation and Protocompiler Prototyping software, troubleshooting issues across partitioning, synthesis, place and route, and hardware debug
• Work directly with customers to migrate their designs to new software releases, ensuring compatibility and resolving any regressions or performance issues that surface
• Deploy new software features on live customer designs, helping them adopt capabilities like advanced partitioning algorithms, new debug modes, or updated FPGA target support
• Deliver technical training sessions to customers, ranging from basic tool usage to advanced workflows for multi-FPGA partitioning and hardware-software co-verification
• Collaborate with Synopsys HAV R&D teams to report customer issues, provide reproducible test cases, and advocate for product improvements based on real-world usage patterns
• Support pre-sales evaluations by running customer designs through the Synopsys emulation and prototyping flow, demonstrating performance and identifying potential adoption blockers
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for onsite support, training, or critical issue resolution

The Team You’ll Be A Part Of:

You will join Synopsys Technical Sales Group (TSG) as part of the Hardware Assisted Verification (HAV) team, working alongside expert-level field engineers who support customers globally on Zebu Emulation and Protocompiler Prototyping solutions. The team works closely with R&D and directly with customers at all stages of the emulation and prototyping cycle, from pre-sales evaluation through post-deployment support. You will collaborate with engineers across geographies and gain exposure to Synopsys HAV hardware platforms as part of your technical development.

• Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.