Applications Engineering, Sr. Staff Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and support of software products and supporting systems.
• Develop strategic technical campaigns, negotiate success criteria, and provide refined requirements to drive exciting new product features to meet business objectives.
• Develop competence in a product area and be recognized as a regional expert.
• Lead technical campaigns to successful completion.
• Work independently and as a member of a team and motivate others.
• Develop and deliver training/education to customers.
• Be a mentor for junior levels.
• Negotiate success criteria with customers for critical technical campaigns.
• Provide neat, accurate, and thorough work in a timely manner.
• Complete assignments without specific directions, recognize problems, and apply or suggest viable solutions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a related field of study, and six (6) years of experience in a related position.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study, and eight (8) years of experience in a related position.
• Experience with TCL and Python.
• Experience with semiconductor and systems design specializing in digital, analog, Mixed-Signal and RF.
• Experience with large-scale commercial software support.
• Experience with simulation methodologies, running simulation benchmarks, modeling and simulation of engineered products and processes.
• Experience with triage workflow issues.

Qualifications

• Deep domain knowledge of voltage drop, electromigration, KCL/KVL, extraction, and circuit solving.
• Experience with ASIC/SoC physical design, custom circuit design, and power, signal, and reliability integrity to support product deployment and chip design sign-off.
• Collaboration with customers, IP providers, and foundries to understand design challenges for emerging applications and technology nodes (7nm and beyond).
• Technical consultation to optimize system-level reliability, performance, and cost.
• Partnership with R&D teams to develop, enhance, and validate products on the Ansys Seascape platform.

Skills

• Expertise in VLSI EDA backend (post-layout) tools and software, including Totem, Totem-SC, Pathfinder, Pathfinder-SC, and Redhawk-SC.
• Experience with advanced technology nodes such as 3nm, 2nm, A14, and beyond.
• Ability to lead technical evaluations to understand customer requirements and inputs, define correct and scalable workflows, and author detailed specification documents for future software releases.
• Experience in developing fully automated end-to-end workflows that allow customers to run tools efficiently and generate actionable results.

Benefits

• Rate of pay: $173,000 per year.

Pay

• $173,000 per year.

Schedule

• In office 2 days a week.