Applications Engineering, Executive Director
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering
In short
Synopsys is seeking an Executive Director of Applications Engineering with deep experience in emulation or verification to lead a team supporting emulation products. This role involves direct customer engagement, partnering with product and R&D teams, and mentoring engineers to drive customer success and product improvement.
Responsibilities
- 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 to make informed technical decisions and guide the team
- Work directly with customers during critical phases of adoption, deployment, and scale to ensure success with 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
Requirements
- 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
- Experience working directly with customers on deployments, escalations, and technical strategy
- Strong technical credibility
- Experience with emulation products from Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, or similar platforms is a strong plus
Desired Qualifications
- Move easily between customer discussions, team coaching, and product conversations while keeping priorities clear
- Know when to engage directly in technical details and when to empower the team to own the solution
- Provide clear, constructive guidance when customer needs, product priorities, and team capacity need to be balanced
- Invest in hiring, mentoring, and team development as core parts of building long-term technical capability
- Explain a complex emulation tradeoff to an executive in two minutes and then walk an engineer through the same problem at full technical depth
- Make thoughtful decisions with the information available, balancing speed, risk, and customer impact
Benefits
- Comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits
- Total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings
- Eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses
- Competitive total rewards package
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Company
Synopsys Inc
Job Posted
6 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Executive
Locations
Sunnyvale, United States
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