Applications Engineering, Executive Director

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