EDA Application Engineer – Siemens EDA/Questa
Saratech is seeking an experienced EDA Application Engineer to support our engineering customers throughout North America. Saratech is a leading Siemens Digital Industries Software partner and an engineering services company with proven expertise in helping organizations improve product development, manufacturing, verification, and digital transformation.
Our team works with leading companies across aerospace, space, defense, automotive, semiconductor, electronics, and industrial equipment markets.
The EDA Application Engineer will primarily support Siemens EDA products-formerly Mentor Graphics-with a particular focus on the Questa verification portfolio. The position will help customers evaluate, implement, and effectively use electronic design automation solutions for FPGA, ASIC, and system-level design verification.
The ideal candidate is technically curious, customer-focused, and motivated by solving complex design and verification challenges. This individual must be comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with customers, sales professionals, other application engineers, and Siemens EDA technical teams.
Ideal Candidates
- Have experience with digital design, functional verification, FPGA development, or ASIC development.
- Understand hardware description and verification languages such as SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL.
- Have experience with simulation, debugging, testbench development, and verification methodologies.
- Are familiar with Siemens EDA tools such as Questa, ModelSim, Visualizer, or related verification solutions.
- Are highly self-motivated and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Can learn complex technical material and new software applications quickly.
- Enjoy helping customers solve challenging engineering problems.
- Have outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Are comfortable presenting technical information to both engineering and management audiences.
Responsibilities
- Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical support for Siemens EDA solutions, with an emphasis on the Questa product portfolio.
- Work with customers to understand their electronic design and verification processes, technical requirements, and business objectives.
- Deliver software demonstrations, technical presentations, workshops, proof-of-concept engagements, and product evaluations.
- Install, configure, and troubleshoot Siemens EDA software in customer environments.
- Assist customers with simulation, verification, debugging, coverage analysis, and regression workflows.
- Support FPGA and ASIC verification environments using SystemVerilog, VHDL, Verilog, UVM, and related technologies.
- Develop demonstration designs, testbenches, scripts, technical examples, and reusable customer-facing content.
- Provide customer training and enablement for Questa and other Siemens EDA products.
- Help customers improve verification productivity, design quality, and time to market.
- Collaborate with Saratech sales teams to identify customer needs and recommend appropriate software and services.
- Maintain strong technical relationships with Siemens EDA product specialists and development teams.
- Communicate customer feedback, enhancement requests, and product issues to Siemens.
- Track product defects and help prioritize issues based on customer and business impact.
- Maintain knowledge of semiconductor, aerospace, defense, automotive, and electronics-industry standards and development practices.
- Expand technical knowledge across the broader Siemens EDA portfolio, which may include Calibre, Xpedition, HyperLynx, Tessent, and related solutions.
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with at least one hardware description or verification language, such as SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL.
- Knowledge of digital logic design, simulation, and verification concepts.
- Experience working in Linux and/or Windows engineering environments.
- Ability to travel periodically to customer locations, industry events, and company meetings.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- No relocation assistance is available for this position.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Siemens Questa, ModelSim, Visualizer, Questa Verification IQ, or other Siemens EDA products.
- Experience with UVM, constrained-random verification, assertions, functional coverage, code coverage, or formal verification.
- Experience developing FPGA or ASIC designs and verification environments.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Tcl, Perl, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with regression automation, continuous integration, or version-control systems.
- Familiarity with FPGA vendor environments and design flows.
- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, automotive, semiconductor, or electronic-systems customers.
- Previous experience in an application engineering, customer support, consulting, or technical sales role.
- Experience delivering customer training, technical presentations, or software demonstrations.
Why Saratech?
Saratech is looking for the right individuals to join our team. We are a service-oriented organization, and successful candidates genuinely enjoy helping customers and colleagues succeed. Our employees are hardworking, collaborative, technically curious, and committed to delivering measurable customer outcomes.
Saratech values the opinions and contributions of its employees. This position provides the opportunity to work with advanced electronic design and verification technologies while supporting some of the most innovative engineering organizations in the world.
Benefits
- Health insurance for employees and eligible family members, including dental and vision coverage
- Participation in the company bonus program after applicable vesting requirements
- Generous paid time off
- Retirement plan with company match
- Professional development and Siemens EDA product training
- Opportunities to work with leading companies and advanced technologies across multiple industries
150-200K