Principal Applications Engineer, IP Quality and Customer Success-19007

Synopsys, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys, Inc. seeks a Principal Applications Engineer with deep semiconductor expertise to guide IP adoption, silicon bring-up, and post-silicon validation. You will translate complex technical issues into actionable plans and collaborate with IP, verification, and quality teams to reduce execution risk.

You’ll lead senior customer engagements, drive cross-functional collaboration, and help ensure high-quality IP with confidence, prioritizing customer outcomes and product reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level electrical engineering or related degree; advanced degrees encouraged.
• Experience bridging technical depth with customer needs across IP adoption and silicon bring-up.
• Strong understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and digital IP workflows and verification.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior customer-facing technical leader for strategic accounts across IP adoption, integration, silicon bring-up, and ongoing product use.
• Partner with R&D, Verification, Methodology, Quality, and Program Management to identify risks and improve release readiness.
• Translate customer feedback and debugging results into cross-functional action plans addressing root causes and gaps.
• Drive proactive problem-solving, metrics, and continuous-improvement practices to reduce escalations and strengthen customer trust.

Skills

Semiconductor expertise

Customer-facing

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Quality focus

Education

BSEE/BSCE/MSEE/MSCE or advanced degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Confluence

Jira

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 are a Principal Applications Engineer with deep semiconductor expertise and a strong customer-facing mindset. You know how to bridge technical depth with real-world customer needs, helping teams navigate IP integration, silicon bring-up, debug, and methodology challenges with credibility and urgency.

You understand the end-to-end IP lifecycle, from design and verification through implementation, signoff, validation, and post-silicon learning. You are comfortable operating across analog, mixed-signal, and digital environments, and you know how to translate technical issues into clear actions that improve product quality, customer outcomes, and execution discipline.

You bring strong technical credibility, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to work across R&D, Application Engineering, Verification, Quality, and Program Management to solve complex customer challenges. You are motivated by reducing execution risk, improving team readiness, and helping deliver high-quality IP with confidence.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Serve as a senior customer-facing technical leader for strategic accounts, guiding quality, methodology, and execution discussions across IP adoption, integration, silicon bring-up, and ongoing product use
• Partner across R&D, Verification, Methodology, Quality, Program Management, and Application Engineering to identify technical risks, strengthen engineering practices, and improve release readiness
• Translate customer feedback, bring-up findings, and debug issues into clear cross-functional action plans that address root causes, close methodology gaps, and improve future execution
• Drive proactive problem-solving, metrics, and continuous-improvement practices that reduce escalations, improve signoff confidence, and strengthen customer trust

The Impact You Will Have

• Help strategic customers succeed with IP integration, validation, silicon bring-up, and long-term product adoption
• Build trust through strong technical leadership, clear communication, and proactive management of quality and execution risks
• Improve first-pass success and reduce customer disruption by strengthening methodology discipline, signoff readiness, and issue prevention
• Elevate internal alignment and engineering rigor, contributing to stronger product quality and long-term customer relationships

What You’ll Need

• BSEE, BSCE, MSEE, MSCE, or an advanced degree, plus 10+ years of experience in semiconductor design, verification, methodology, quality, applications engineering, or related technical leadership roles
• Strong expertise in analog and mixed-signal or digital IP development, verification, integration, and signoff, with the ability to operate effectively across multiple engineering domains
• For digital candidates, experience in areas such as RTL quality, lint, CDC, RDC, low-power verification, UPF, X-propagation, formal verification, coverage closure, gate-level simulation, and verification signoff; for analog or mixed-signal candidates, experience in design and verification methodologies, behavioral modeling, integration, signoff, silicon bring-up, and post-silicon debug
• Proven ability to lead customer-facing technical engagements, assess risk, influence cross-functional teams, and drive practical improvements using tools and platforms such as Microsoft Project, Confluence, and Jira

Who You Are

• A customer-focused technical leader who keeps customer success, product quality, and long-term trust at the center of decisions
• A semiconductor expert who can move comfortably across analog, mixed-signal, or digital IP methodology, integration, and signoff discussions
• A structured problem-solver who uses data, technical judgment, and continuous improvement to strengthen execution and prevent recurrence
• A credible cross-functional influencer with the presence to lead customer conversations and align teams around action and accountability

Team you will be a part of:

You will be part of a highly collaborative team that partners with the world’s leading semiconductor companies to enable successful IP adoption, integration, validation, silicon bring up and product deployment. Working across Application Engineering, R&D, Verification, Methodology, Quality, and Program Management, the team combines deep technical expertise with strong customer engagement to solve complex challenges, reduce execution risk and improve product quality.