Applications Engineering, Principal Engineer
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer — open 1 day.
About the role
This role involves supporting customers in Digital Design Verification, combining technical verification skills with customer-facing and pre-sales engagement.
What you'll do
- Engage with customers to understand their verification needs
- Support pre-sales activities including demos, technical evaluations, benchmarks, and methodology guidance
- Improve customer verification flows and testbench architectures
- Debug RTL/gate-level simulation issues and SystemVerilog/UVM environments
- Analyse functional and code coverage
- Develop and debug SystemVerilog assertions
What you'll need
- 8–13 years of relevant experience
- Strong knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog, UVM, coverage, and assertions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Flexibility to travel to customer sites, typically one or two days per week
Nice to have
- Experience in customer interaction, pre-sales, or technical support
Skills: verification needs, pre-sales activities, SystemVerilog, UVM, functional coverage
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 61-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
26
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Synopsys | All employers we track in this specialty (26 roles · 9 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 26 |
| Median days open | 21 d | 61 d (−40 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: verification needs, pre-sales activities, SystemVerilog, UVM, functional coverage
Who's hiring in this category
- Synopsys (this employer) · 11 open roles · median 21 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 5 open roles · median 102 d
- Altera · 4 open roles · median 81 d
- Baya Systems · 1 open role · median 61 d
- Efficient Computer · 1 open role · median 25 d
- GlobalFoundries · 1 open role · median 74 d
How we counted: 26 open Applications FAE (Design Verification) roles from 9 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.