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 escalationsStay hands-on with customer issues, emulation workflows, and product behavior so you can make informed technical decisions and guide your team through complex scenariosWork directly with customers during critical phases of adoption, deployment, and scale to ensure they succeed with our emulation platformsPartner with product management, R&D, and field teams to translate customer feedback and technical gaps into actionable product improvementsBuild team capability through hiring, mentoring, and creating the conditions for engineers to do their best technical workOwn the technical relationship with strategic accounts, ensuring alignment between customer needs and engineering prioritiesBalance 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 schedulesThe technical solutions and workflows your engineers build will become repeatable patterns that accelerate time-to-value across the customer baseCustomer feedback you surface and prioritize will shape the emulation product roadmap and drive improvements that benefit the entire marketEngineers on your team will grow their technical depth and leadership capability under your mentorship, becoming the next generation of technical leaders at SynopsysStrategic accounts will stay engaged and expand their use of Synopsys emulation because your team delivers consistent, high-quality technical supportProduct and R&D teams will make better decisions because you bring real customer context and technical insight to the tableThe 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 domainsDeep hands-on experience with emulation platforms, verification methodologies, or hardware-software co-verificationProven track record leading technical teams, ideally in applications engineering or customer success rolesAbility to debug complex technical issues across hardware, software, and customer environments without losing the threadExperience working directly with customers on deployments, escalations, and technical strategyStrong technical credibility, you should be able to hold your own in a room full of verification engineers or architectsExperience 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 clearYou know when to engage directly in technical details and when to empower the team to own the solutionYou can provide clear, constructive guidance when customer needs, product priorities, and team capacity need to be balancedYou invest in hiring, mentoring, and team development as core parts of building long-term technical capabilityYou can explain a complex emulation tradeoff to an executive in two minutes and then walk an engineer through the same problem at full technical depthYou 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.