Applications Engineering, Executive Director

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 are a technical leader with deep experience in emulation or verification and a proven ability to lead high-performing applications engineering teams. You remain close to the technology, understand complex customer issues, and know how to guide teams through challenging debug, deployment, and adoption scenarios.

You are equally comfortable engaging with customers, partnering across product and R&D, and making practical decisions that balance technical depth, business priorities, and team capacity.

Your leadership style combines hands-on credibility with the judgment to scale through others. You develop strong engineers, create focus, and ensure the team delivers solutions that help customers succeed.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and grow a team of applications engineers supporting Synopsys emulation products across customer engagements, deployments, and technical escalations
• Stay hands-on with customer issues, emulation workflows, and product behavior so you can make informed technical decisions and guide your team through complex scenarios
• Work directly with customers during critical phases of adoption, deployment, and scale to ensure they succeed with our emulation platforms
• Partner with product management, R&D, and field teams to translate customer feedback and technical gaps into actionable product improvements
• Build team capability through hiring, mentoring, and creating the conditions for engineers to do their best technical work
• Own the technical relationship with strategic accounts, ensuring alignment between customer needs and engineering priorities
• Balance hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities, knowing when to dive in and when to delegate

The Impact You Will Have

• Your team will directly influence how customers adopt, deploy, and scale emulation in their verification flows, which determines whether they hit their tapeout schedules
• The technical solutions and workflows your engineers build will become repeatable patterns that accelerate time-to-value across the customer base
• Customer feedback you surface and prioritize will shape the emulation product roadmap and drive improvements that benefit the entire market
• Engineers on your team will grow their technical depth and leadership capability under your mentorship, becoming the next generation of technical leaders at Synopsys
• Strategic accounts will stay engaged and expand their use of Synopsys emulation because your team delivers consistent, high-quality technical support
• Product and R&D teams will make better decisions because you bring real customer context and technical insight to the table
• The balance you strike between technical execution and team leadership will set the standard for how applications engineering operates across the business

What You'll Need

• 15+ years in applications engineering, field engineering, or customer-facing technical roles in EDA, semiconductor, or verification domains
• Deep hands-on experience with emulation platforms, verification methodologies, or hardware-software co-verification
• Proven track record leading technical teams, ideally in applications engineering or customer success roles
• Ability to debug complex technical issues across hardware, software, and customer environments without losing the thread
• Experience working directly with customers on deployments, escalations, and technical strategy
• Strong technical credibility, you should be able to hold your own in a room full of verification engineers or architects
• Experience with emulation products from Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, or similar platforms is a strong plus

Who You Are

• You move easily between customer discussions, team coaching, and product conversations while keeping priorities clear
• You know when to engage directly in technical details and when to empower the team to own the solution
• You can provide clear, constructive guidance when customer needs, product priorities, and team capacity need to be balanced
• You invest in hiring, mentoring, and team development as core parts of building long-term technical capability
• You can explain a complex emulation tradeoff to an executive in two minutes and then walk an engineer through the same problem at full technical depth
• You make thoughtful decisions with the information available, balancing speed, risk, and customer impact

The Team You'll Be Part Of

Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.