can someone please tell me what is the diffrence between synopsys application engineer and application consultant ?
I believe you are looking at PD role because Applications consultant role is pretty much dead because the org it was under was merged with other. Surviving only in Design Team. But as pointed out AC is more close to sales & customers and a generalist ...while AE is closer to RnD and generally a tool expert.
Think of Application Engineer as Sales Engineer and Application Consultant as Product Manager.
Application engineer support the tool consultant help companies with methodology and flow development it is a more interesting role