Applications Engineering, Staff Engineer - DFT

We Are Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. 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 You 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. You 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. You 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. What You'll Be Doing Own 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 Deliver hands-on technical training, workshops, and best-practice enablement sessions to customer DFT engineering teams across China Reproduce 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 Support pre-sales technical evaluations and benchmarks, translating customer requirements into proof-of-concept flows using TestMAX, DFTMAX, and TetraMAX Write and maintain reusable enablement collateral including flow documentation, known issue summaries, and workaround guides for both internal teams and customers Debug DFT and ATPG issues using simulation, waveform analysis, and DRC/log file forensics to isolate root cause under tight schedule pressure Work across time zones with global R&D, sales, and customer teams, and travel to customer sites in China as needed for critical engagements The Impact You Will Have Enable customers to tape out complex SoCs with robust, manufacturable test coverage, directly affecting yield and time-to-market for high-volume production chips Reduce customer debug cycles by catching DFT setup issues early and providing clear, actionable guidance that prevents downstream silicon failures Shape the product roadmap by translating field requirements and customer pain points into prioritized R&D feature requests and quality improvements Build customer confidence in Synopsys DFT solutions through hands-on enablement, responsive support, and deep technical credibility that drives tool adoption and renewals Accelerate time-to-resolution for critical issues by creating reproducible test cases and working directly with R&D to deliver fixes and workarounds faster than standard support channels Grow the knowledge base for the broader applications team by documenting flows, failure modes, and best practices that get reused across dozens of customer engagements Help customers successfully bring up first silicon by diagnosing scan chain failures, logic diagnosis mismatches, and ATE pa