Applications Engineering Executive Director
SynopsysJob Title
Applications Engineering Executive Director
Role Summary
Lead and grow a technical applications engineering organization that supports emulation products across customer engagements, deployments, and escalations. The role balances hands-on technical leadership with people management, cross-functional partnership, and customer-facing responsibilities.
Experience Level
Senior — requires substantial experience; the posting specifies 15+ years in applications engineering, field engineering, or customer-facing technical roles in EDA, semiconductor, or verification domains.
Responsibilities
Provide technical and organizational leadership to ensure customers successfully adopt and scale emulation platforms.
- Lead and grow a team of applications engineers supporting emulation products across engagements, deployments, and escalations.
- Remain hands-on with customer issues, emulation workflows, and product behavior to inform technical decisions.
- Engage directly with customers during adoption, deployment, and scaling phases to ensure success.
- Partner with product management, R&D, and field teams to translate customer feedback into product improvements.
- Own technical relationships with strategic accounts and align engineering priorities with customer needs.
- Hire, mentor, and build team capability; develop engineers into stronger technical contributors and leaders.
- Balance direct technical involvement with delegation and organizational leadership.
Requirements
Key must-have skills and experience for effective performance in this role.
- 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 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 with verification engineers and architects.
- Nice-to-have: Experience with emulation products from Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, or similar platforms.
Education Requirements
Not specified.
About the Company
Company: Synopsys
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA
Synopsys is a leading company in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP solutions. It provides tools and services for designing and verifying complex semiconductor devices and systems. The company plays a pivotal role in the semiconductor industry, helping engineers innovate and deliver higher-quality products faster. Synopsys is committed to advancing technology standards and offers a range of software and hardware solutions to its clients globally.
