Principal Application Engineer- Emulation

We 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 deep in emulation platforms, the kind where a single debug session can stretch across hardware, software, and verification layers, and you have learned that the hardest part is not running the emulation, it is making it run fast enough to matter. You think in workflows, not features. You know the difference between a setup that demos well and one that actually closes verification for a complex SoC on schedule, and you care deeply about that difference. You are comfortable walking into a customer site where the emulation run is failing in ways that make no sense on paper, and walking out three hours later with a root cause, a fix, and a plan to prevent it from happening again. You do not wait for perfect documentation. You dig into the platform, ask the right questions, and move. Leading comes naturally to you, not because you have the title, but because people trust your judgment. You push back when a verification strategy is going to hit a wall in three months. You mentor without making it feel like mentoring. At Synopsys, you will work with customers who are building the chips that power everything, and the emulation strategies you design will determine whether they hit their tapeout or slip by quarters.

Lead technical engagements with customers deploying ZeBu or other emulation platforms, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, debug issues, and workflow inefficiencies that block verification progress Design emulation strategies for complex SoC and ASIC projects, defining partitioning approaches, testbench integration, and bring-up sequences that actually work under real project constraints Collaborate directly with Synopsys R&D teams to escalate product gaps, influence roadmap priorities, and validate new features against customer use cases before they ship Develop and deliver technical training sessions, workshops, and best practice guides for customer engineering teams and internal application engineers Troubleshoot critical emulation failures in live customer environments, working across hardware, RTL, testbench, and software layers to isolate root cause and restore productivity Mentor junior applications engineers on emulation methodologies, debugging techniques, and customer engagement strategies, building the team's technical depth and customer impact The Impact You Will Have Accelerate verification closure for customers building AI accelerators, automotive SoCs, and hyperscale processors, cutting months off their schedules through smarter emulation strategies Expand ZeBu adoption across new customer segments by proving out use cases, building reference flows, and demonstrating measurable ROI in real project contexts Shape the emulation product roadmap by translating customer pain points into actionable R&D requirements that improve performance, usability, and scalability for the entire user base Build long-term technical partnerships with lead architects and verification managers at top semiconductor companies, becoming their trusted advisor for emulation and verification strategy Reduce customer escalations and support load by creating reusable methodologies, automation scripts, and