Application Engineering Architect- Enterprise Software​/FA&D

Location: Lionville

General Information

Job Title

Application Engineering Architect
- Enterprise Software/FA&D

Job

17022

City

Exton

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Date Posted

16-Apr-2026

Job Category

Engineering

Job Subcategory

Applications Engineering

Hire Type

Employee

Remote Eligible

No
Base Salary Range: $172000 - $258000

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

** Please note that this role can be based in any of the following locations:
Colorado Springs, CO, Washington, DC area, Huntsville, AL, Exton, PAWe 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 building systems that have to hold together under real operational pressure, where "good enough" is not an option and the stakes are measured in mission success. Architecture is not an ivory tower exercise for you. It is the discipline of making hard tradeoffs early so that teams downstream can build with confidence and systems can scale without falling apart six months into production.

You are comfortable walking into a room with a program manager, a customer stakeholder, and a team of developers and walking out with a technical plan that everyone understands and believes in. You know how to translate vague customer requirements into concrete architectural decisions, and you know when to push back when a request does not align with what the system can actually support.

You have built cloud-native distributed systems that had to deploy, scale, and secure themselves across environments you did not fully control. Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, these are not buzzwords for you. They are tools you have used to solve real problems. You have worked with data at scale, designed schemas that perform, and integrated AI or ML components into production systems where they had to actually deliver value, not just demo well.

At Synopsys, you will architect software solutions that directly support aerospace and defense missions. The work is complex, the customers are sophisticated, and what you build will matter to the warfighter.

What You'll Be Doing Lead end-to-end technical planning and architectural design for large-scale custom software solutions integrating Ansys simulation tools for aerospace and US defense customers

Define and enforce architectural standards, governance processes, and best practices across engineering teams, conducting technical reviews and mentoring developers through complex design decisions

Partner directly with project managers, customers, and Synopsys product teams to gather requirements, establish technical specifications around capability, performance, cybersecurity, and deployment, and align architecture with mission objectives

Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies including AI, machine learning, and cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure) into production systems, ensuring scalability, interoperability, and long-term platform strategy alignment

Design and oversee implementation of back-end services, front-end architectures, data pipelines, and distributed systems using modern technologies like C#, Java, Python, Node, Type Script, Angular, React, Docker, and Kubernetes Architect secure CI/CD pipelines, containerized microservices, and cloud-enabled distributed systems that meet DoD cybersecurity requirements and deployment constraints

Drive technical strategy and influence product roadmaps by assessing new capabilities, managing technical risks, and communicating architectural impacts to executive leadership and external defense stakeholders

The Impact You Will Have Enable warfighters and defense analysts to extract maximum insight from simulation data through production-quality software solutions that integrate and automate complex engineering workflows

Accelerate mission-critical decision-making by architecting scalable, secure platforms that deliver simulation results faster and with greater reliability across aerospace and defense operations

Reduce technical debt and integration friction across multiple product teams by establishing architectural standards and governance that ensure consistency, compatibility, and…