Descriptions & Requirements
Job Description and Requirements
What You'll Be Doing:
• Lead customer engagements and benchmark activities to drive adoption, increase usage share, and grow revenue.
• Serve as a primary technical interface for key accounts, aligning Synopsys solutions to customer needs and business objectives.
• Coordinate engagement logistics, drive regular sync meetings, and provide clear status updates to stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Account AEs and contribute to account strategy and opportunity development.
• Mentor and guide junior AEs and engineers, strengthening overall team performance.
• Apply deep expertise in RTL-to-GDS flows to support customer designs, including synthesis, physical implementation, and signoff.
• Drive solutions for timing closure, PPA optimization, and advanced-node challenges.
• Debug complex design and flow issues, providing hands-on technical leadership.
• Influence customer methodologies, including adoption of AI-driven design flows and automation.
The Impact You Will Have:
• Expand Synopsys footprint within strategic accounts through successful technical engagements.
• Accelerate customer design cycles and improve design outcomes at advanced nodes.
• Strengthen long-term customer relationships by delivering consistent technical excellence and business value.
What You'll Need:
• 20+ years of experience in EDA / semiconductor design and implementation.
• Proven hands-on expertise across RTL-to-GDS, including:
• Synthesis
• Physical implementation (place & route)
• Signoff: physical verification, extraction, STA
• Strong skills in:
• Timing closure and PPA optimization
• Advanced process node design methodologies
• Experience with Fusion Compiler is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of formal verification and DFT.
• Strong debugging and scripting skills (e.g., Tcl, Python).
• Understanding of AI/ML applications or AI agents in design flows is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Experience:
• Experience in customer-facing or pre-sales engineering roles within EDA.
• Demonstrated success driving benchmarks, evaluations, and production tapeouts.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional, global team environment.
In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.
