Principal Applications Engineer, IP Quality and Customer Success

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 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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