Applications Engineering, Director

Synopsys; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys in Bengaluru seeks a senior leader to drive digital design methodologies for advanced node designs, leading customer engagements and cross-functional teams to ensure timely tapeouts.

You will diagnose bottlenecks, tune tool configurations, and deliver hands-on training while mentoring engineers, shaping product feedback, and expanding AI-enabled capabilities across projects.

Qualifications

• 16+ years in digital design implementation including synthesis and PnR on advanced nodes.
• Proven track record leading technical teams and managing customer escalations.
• Experience with AI/ML tooling in EDA is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements to deploy digital design methodologies including synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and power optimization for advanced node designs.
• Solve complex technical challenges alongside customer engineering teams, diagnosing bottlenecks in their flows and tuning tool configurations to hit PPA targets.
• Deliver technical training and hands-on guidance to customer teams on tool usage, methodology best practices, and advanced implementation techniques.
• Manage and mentor a team of applications engineers, balancing project delivery, technical growth, and customer relationship ownership across multiple engagements.
• Own customer escalations, driving debug and resolution plans in partnership with R&D, Product, and Program teams when issues block tapeout or deployment.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to Synopsys R&D teams, translating field issues and feature requests into actionable product feedback that shapes tool development.
• Drive AI initiatives and work with cross-functional and global AE teams to scale adoption of new capabilities within customer organizations and internal workflows.

Skills

Synthesis

Place-and-Route

Timing Closure

Power Optimization

Customer Engagement

Team Leadership

Troubleshooting

AI/ML in EDA

Tools

Synopsys Tools

EDA Tool Debugging

Job description

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 have spent years in the trenches of digital design, working synthesis flows, closing timing on advanced nodes, and debugging why a place-and-route run just blew past its power budget at 3am. More than that, you have learned how to take that hard-won knowledge and turn it into something a customer team can actually use. You do not just solve problems, you teach people how to solve them, and you know the difference between a one-time fix and a methodology that scales across an entire design organization.

Leading a team comes naturally to you because you have been the engineer who needed clear direction, the one who hit a wall and needed air cover, and the one who wanted to grow but did not know how. You set priorities without overthinking them. You protect your team's time while keeping customers moving. You escalates when it matters and resolve when you can.

You are comfortable sitting across from a customer architect who is frustrated that their block will not converge and walking out with a plan that involves three engineers, two R&D escalations, and a revised timeline everyone believes in. At Synopsys, you will lead a team that does this work every day, for customers building the chips that matter.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead customer engagements to deploy digital design methodologies including synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and power optimization for advanced node designs
• Solve complex technical challenges alongside customer engineering teams, diagnosing bottlenecks in their flows and tuning tool configurations to hit PPA targets
• Deliver technical training and hands-on guidance to customer teams on tool usage, methodology best practices, and advanced implementation techniques
• Manage and mentor a team of applications engineers, balancing project delivery, technical growth, and customer relationship ownership across multiple engagements
• Own customer escalations, driving debug and resolution plans in partnership with R&D, Product, and Program teams when issues block tapeout or deployment
• Serve as the voice of the customer to Synopsys R&D teams, translating field issues and feature requests into actionable product feedback that shapes tool development
• Drive AI initiatives and work with cross-functional and global AE teams to scale adoption of new capabilities within customer organizations and internal workflows

The Impact You Will Have

• Your team will enable customers to tape out advanced node designs on time by solving the hard methodology and tooling problems that would otherwise derail schedules
• Customer engineering teams will adopt Synopsys flows more broadly and deeply because you made the tools understandable and the methodology repeatable
• R&D priorities will shift based on the field intelligence you surface, turning customer pain points into product improvements that benefit the entire user base
• Your engineers will grow into stronger technical leaders and customer partners because you gave them the coaching, context, and autonomy they needed
• Escalations will resolve faster and with better outcomes because you built the cross-functional relationships and processes that turn chaos into coordinated action
• AI-driven capabilities will move from pilot to production in customer environments because you led the enablement and proved the value
• Synopsys will retain and expand relationships with strategic accounts because your team consistently delivers technical wins that matter to their business

What You'll Need

• 16+ years of hands-on experience in digital design implementation, including synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and power optimization on advanced process nodes
• Deep working knowledge of Synopsys digital design tools or equivalent EDA platforms, with the ability to debug flows, tune configurations, and teach methodologies
• Proven experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and resource allocation across multiple customer engagements
• Track record of managing customer escalations and driving resolution through cross-functional collaboration with R&D, Product, and Support organizations
• Strong technical judgment to prioritize competing demands, allocate resources effectively, and make tradeoff decisions under pressure
• Willingness to travel occasionally to support strategic customer engagements, executive reviews, and critical project milestones
• Experience with AI/ML tooling or methodologies in the context of EDA workflows is a plus .