Staff FPGA Prototyping Engineer for HAPS & ProtoCompiler

Synopsys Inc; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys Inc. is seeking an experienced Applications Engineer for FPGA-based prototyping using HAPS and ProtoCompiler. You will partner with customer teams to enable design bring-up, partitioning, timing closure, and hardware verification on real SoCs.

You will debug interfaces like PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, and AXI, analyze RTL and timing reports, and develop repeatable bring-up methodologies. Collaboration with R&D, Sales, and Success teams helps customers achieve on-schedule hardware milestones

Qualifications

• Experience with FPGA synthesis, place-and-route, and timing closure.
• Debug designs using logs, timing reports, and RTL analysis.
• Develop and document partitioning strategies and bring-up procedures.
• Collaborate with R&D to reproduce issues and deliver solutions.
• Work with interface IP such as PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, or AXI.

Responsibilities

• Support customer deployments of HAPS and ProtoCompiler across FPGA-based prototyping.
• Debug customer designs involving DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, Ethernet, AXI, and other interfaces.
• Reproduce issues and work with R&D to identify root causes and workarounds.
• Develop methodologies for partitioning, clock architecture, and bring-up procedures.
• Assist sales and engineering teams in technical evaluations and deployment planning.

Skills

FPGA implementation

ASIC design

FPGA prototyping

SystemVerilog

RTL design

PCIe

DDR

Ethernet

AXI

Scripting (Python/Tcl)

ProtoCompiler

HAPS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Intel Quartus

Verdi

ProtoCompiler

Synopsys HAPS

Job description

Synopsys Inc. is seeking an experienced Applications Engineer for FPGA-based prototyping using HAPS and ProtoCompiler. You will partner with customer teams to enable design bring-up, partitioning, timing closure, and hardware verification on real SoCs.

You will debug interfaces like PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, and AXI, analyze RTL and timing reports, and develop repeatable bring-up methodologies. Collaboration with R&D, Sales, and Success teams helps customers achieve on-schedule hardware milestones