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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. You Are\nYou have spent years deep in DFT flows, the kind where a scan chain failure at 3 a.m. before tape-out is not a crisis, it is Tuesday. You know that DFT is not just about inserting scan cells and running ATPG, it is about making a chip testable in production, debuggable when it fails, and manufacturable at scale. You have debugged enough compression issues and hierarchical test mismatches to recognize the difference between a tool limitation and a setup mistake in about fifteen minutes.\nYou are the engineer who reads the DRC log, traces it back to the RTL, writes the Tcl workaround, and then explains to the customer why it happened and how to avoid it next time. You do not need perfect documentation to get started. You dig into waveforms, compare netlists, and work backward from silicon failures until you find the root cause. When a customer asks if something is possible, you do not guess, you build a test case.\nYou are comfortable sitting with a customer's DFT team in Shanghai one week and on a call with R&D in Mountain View the next, translating field requirements into product asks and product capabilities into working flows. At Synopsys, you will work on tools that test the chips that power everything, and the customers you support will remember your name because you helped them get to silicon.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nOwn full customer DFT engagements from project kickoff through tape-out and first-silicon bring-up, covering scan compression, ATPG, XLBIST, OCC, IEEE 1687/1149, and hierarchical test flows\nDeliver hands-on technical training, workshops, and best-practice enablement sessions to customer DFT engineering teams across China\nReproduce complex customer issues in-house, create minimal test cases, and partner with R&D to resolve product gaps, enhance features, and improve quality of results\nSupport pre-sales technical evaluations and benchmarks, translating customer requirements into proof-of-concept flows using TestMAX, DFTMAX, and TetraMAX\nWrite and maintain reusable enablement collateral including flow documentation, known issue summaries, and workaround guides for both internal teams and 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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.\n\nAt Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. 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