Sr Staff Customer Engineer, Parasitic Extraction

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Lead technical benchmarks for interconnect parasitic extraction on advanced FinFET nodes, demonstrating StarRC's accuracy and performance advantages against customer requirements and competitive tools
• Drive pre-sales engagements including methodology presentations, live demos, and proof-of-concept evaluations that translate tool capabilities into measurable customer value
• Manage post-sales technical relationships with North America accounts, serving as the primary technical point of contact for parasitic extraction workflows in digital and custom design flows
• Resolve customer issues end to end, from initial triage through R&D engagement to deployment, tracking escalations and ensuring timely closure with clear communication to all stakeholders
• Plan and lead Technical Review Meetings and Management Review Meetings, aligning customer roadmaps with Synopsys solutions and identifying expansion opportunities
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and R&D teams to define account strategies, shape product direction based on field feedback, and drive adoption of new features and methodologies
• Develop and deliver technical content including application notes, best practice guides, and training materials that help customers extract maximum value from their Synopsys tools

• Enable customers to tape out complex designs on 3nm and below by ensuring their parasitic extraction flows deliver the accuracy and capacity they need to close timing
• Accelerate design cycles at key accounts by identifying bottlenecks in extraction workflows and deploying methodologies that cut runtime without sacrificing signoff quality
• Grow Synopsys footprint in your territory by winning competitive evaluations and expanding tool adoption from initial projects to full production flows
• Strengthen customer loyalty by being the engineer they call first when something breaks, and the one who actually gets it fixed
• Influence product roadmap priorities by channeling real-world customer requirements and pain points directly to R&D with the technical context that drives better decisions
• Build technical credibility that opens doors for the broader Synopsys portfolio, turning parasitic extraction wins into opportunities for STA, simulation, and physical verification tools
• Reduce escalation cycle times by owning issues from the field side and ensuring R&D has what they need to reproduce, diagnose, and resolve problems quickly

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 7+ years of industry experience, or Master's degree with 5+ years
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience working directly with interconnect parasitic extraction tools such as StarRC or Quickcap on advanced FinFET nodes (7nm and below)
• Strong understanding of digital and custom design flows, including how parasitic extraction fits into timing closure, signoff, and reliability analysis
• Deep knowledge of process technology and how design rules, metal stacks, and device characteristics affect extraction accuracy and performance
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (TCL, Perl, or Python) for automation, debugging, and workflow customization
• Experience with commercial static timing analysis tools like PrimeTime is a strong plus
• Familiarity with simulation tools such as Hspice or Primesim will help you connect extraction results to circuit-level performance and debug

• You can walk into a customer benchmark, look at their results, and within an hour identify whether the issue is setup, methodology, or an actual tool gap
• When a customer escalation lands, you do not forward the email and hope someone responds. You own it, pull in the right people, and keep everyone updated until it is resolved
• You can explain a complex tradeoff between extraction accuracy and runtime to a design manager in two sentences, and then turn around and give R&D the technical depth they need to act on it
• Presenting to a room full of senior engineers or executives does not rattle you. You know your material, you answer the hard questions, and you do not oversell what the tool can do
• You are organized enough to manage multiple accounts, track a dozen open issues, and still make time to prep a benchmark that could swing a seven-figure deal
• You push back when a customer request does not make technical sense, but you do it in a way that keeps the relationship intact and moves the conversation forward