Professional Services Consulting, Staff Consultant
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading customer-facing consulting engagements, providing technical strategy and execution for simulation workflows, and applying Python-based automation and modern simulation methods.
What you'll do
- Lead customer-facing consulting engagements from scoping through delivery, owning the technical strategy and execution for simulation workflow.
- Develop Statements of Work and services proposals that reflect customer needs with clear strategy and technical scope.
- Run workshops and technical sessions with customer engineering teams to diagnose workflow gaps and define a future-state vision using Synopsys simulation and analysis tools.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across multi-physics simulation environments, working hands-on to resolve blockers.
- Partner with Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to translate customer feedback into actionable product insights and service offerings.
- Build trusted advisor relationships with customer stakeholders, serving as the technical voice between engineering teams and business decision-makers.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in engineering simulation, process optimization, or technical consulting roles working directly with customers or internal engineering teams.
- Deep knowledge of nonlinear solids and structural mechanics, structural dynamics, finite element analysis and related numerical methods.
- Hands on experience with finite element analysis products (e.g Ansys Mechanical, Ansys LS-Dyna, Abaqus, NASTRAN etc) and associated modeling procedures.
- Direct experience with python based workflow automation using product APIs and general python libraries.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel up to 30% for customer engagements, workshops, and onsite consulting delivery.
Nice to have
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in engineering simulation, process optimization, or technical consulting roles working directly with customers or internal engineering teams.
- Demonstrated execution of multi-physics simulation workflows, design variation and optimization.
- Experience with end-to-end automation of simulation procedures and custom applications.
- Experience with application of AI/ML in engineering design and simulation contexts.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues in production environments.
- Experience developing Statements of Work, scoping consulting engagements, and delivering projects that meet customer success criteria and timelines.
- Experience leading workshops or training sessions.
Skills: customer-facing, consulting engagements, simulation workflow, finite element analysis, Python automation, technical strategy
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 24-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
111
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Median days open
24 d
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Median salary
$168k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Synopsys | All employers we track in this specialty (111 roles · 11 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 56 | 111 |
| Median days open | 21 d | 24 d (−3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Skills observed across this category: customer-facing, consulting engagements, simulation workflow, finite element analysis, Python automation, technical strategy
Who's hiring in this category
- Synopsys (this employer) · 56 open roles · median 21 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 24 open roles · median 41 d
- Renesas Electronics · 11 open roles · median 42 d
- Keysight Technologies · 8 open roles · median 64 d
- GlobalFoundries · 3 open roles · median 91 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 81 d
How we counted: 111 open Applications FAE (EDA Tools) roles from 11 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 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.