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We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.\nYou Are\nYou have spent the last few years deep in the RTL2GDS flow, and you know that the real work happens in the messy middle where verification meets implementation and theory meets timing closure. You understand that a clean ECO is not about clever tricks, it is about knowing the tools well enough to make the right call under pressure when a customer's tapeout schedule depends on it.\nYou are comfortable debugging complex place-and-route issues, timing convergence challenges, congestion problems, power optimization opportunities, and physical implementation bottlenecks using Fusion Compiler. 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Knowledge of complementary tools such as Formality, Formality ECO, PrimeTime, and other Synopsys signoff solutions is highly valued.\nYou also embrace modern AI-assisted workflows and understand how to leverage AI tools to improve productivity, accelerate debug, automate repetitive tasks, and deliver faster, more effective customer support.\nAt Synopsys, you will work directly with customers building the chips that power everything from AI accelerators to automotive systems, and the solutions you deliver will matter.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nSupport customers through physical design implementation and design closure using Synopsys tools.\nDebug complex design challenges across timing, power, area, congestion, routing, and runtime optimization at advanced process nodes including 5nm and below.\nHelp customers achieve implementation closure while meeting aggressive tapeout schedules and design quality requirements.\nProvide technical guidance on best practices for synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, power optimization, and advanced implementation methodologies.\nBuild and maintain automation scripts in Python, Perl, and TCL to streamline workflows and improve turnaround time for customer engagements.\nUtilize AI-powered tools and workflows to improve productivity, accelerate issue resolution, and enhance customer support effectiveness.\nCollaborate with internal R&D teams to reproduce customer issues, validate tool behavior, and feed real-world use cases back into product development.\nPresent technical solutions and recommendations to senior customer engineers and design leads during critical project phases.\nWork across the full RTL-to-GDS flow, from implementation through signoff and tapeout readiness.\nThe Impact You Will Have\nEnable customers to achieve first-pass silicon success on high-performance chips powering AI, automotive, networking, and mobile applications.\nImprove customer productivity by helping them maximize the value of Fusion 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