What You'll Be Doing
Lead and grow a multi-team SoC verification organization delivering customer-facing services across automotive, aerospace, defense, and high-performance computing
Define and drive SSG verification strategy, including methodology standards, signoff criteria, VIP and tool deployment, and reusable testbench patterns adopted across projects
Own organizational planning including headcount, hiring, succession, performance management, and skill development to build scalable verification capability
Partner with sales and account teams to scope opportunities, assess technical and resource risk, prioritize work against capacity, and align delivery with customer and business objectives
Serve as executive-level technical authority on complex SoC verification challenges, escalations, and convergence across multi-protocol, multi-domain, and advanced-node designs
Establish clear accountability across verification managers and technical leads, and drive adoption of Synopsys VCS, Verdi, and VIP based on customer project learnings
Build and maintain executive customer relationships that enable long-term engagement growth and position Synopsys as the verification partner of choice for complex SoC programs
The Impact You Will Have
Your organization will enable customers to tape out complex SoCs on schedule, affecting product launches in AI, automotive, aerospace, and high-performance computing
The verification strategy and standards you define will scale across SSG projects, improving coverage quality, reducing cycle time, and compressing ramp time on new engagements
The leaders you develop will strengthen Synopsys capability to win and execute larger, more complex verification service engagements
Your capacity planning and executive customer engagement will shape how leading semiconductor companies adopt Synopsys EDA tools, VIP, and verification services
What you build will directly influence how SSG scales verification delivery, wins competitive pursuits, and expands into new customer segments and protocol domains
The organizational structure and accountability model you establish will become the foundation for how SSG verification grows over the next three to five years
What You'll Need
Bachelor's or Master's in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 20+ years of hands-on SoC, subsystem, or IP verification experience, including significant leadership scope
Expert-level knowledge of UVM-based verification, coverage-driven closure, verification planning, and complex multi-domain debug across processor-based SoC architectures
Proven experience leading large verification organizations or multi-project teams through planning, delivery, and customer signoff in a services or product development environment
Deep working knowledge of protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, and AMBA interconnects, and hands-on proficiency with Synopsys VCS, Verdi, and VIP
Demonstrated ability to build organizational structures with clear accountability, develop managers and technical leads, and partner with sales and senior customer stakeholders on scoping and escalations
Experience with ARM-based SoC architectures, automotive functional safety verification, or emulation flows is a strong plus
Who You Are
You translate vague customer requests into scoped plans, staffed organizations, and delivery models your teams can execute without losing quality
You see both the technical gap and the organizational failure behind a coverage miss or escalation, and you know how to fix both
You build leaders, not just projects, and you invest time developing managers and senior engineers into people who can own customer outcomes independently
You communicate effectively to engineers debugging a testbench, customer architects reviewing signoff criteria, sales executives scoping a new opportunity, and Synopsys senior leadership reviewing quarterly business performance
You make hard calls on resource allocation, project prioritization, and team structure when the right answer is not the easy one, and you explain the tradeoff clearly enough that people understand why
You know when to delegate and when to step in yourself, whether that means reviewing a verification plan before it goes to a customer or sitting in an escalation call with an executive stakeholder
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will lead verification within the System Solutions Group (SSG), which delivers end-to-end SoC design and verification services to Synopsys customers across high-performance computing, automotive, aerospace, and defense. You will build and lead the verification organization and collaborate with SSG design and architecture peers, sales, application engineering, IP, and EDA teams to deliver customer engagements and scale Synopsys verification capability.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
