# Principal Application Engineer- Solutions Architecture

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160000-$240000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You will join Synopsys, the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products.

As a Principal Application Engineer- Solutions Architecture, you will architect end-to-end multi-physics simulation and digital engineering solutions for strategic and enterprise customers using ANSYS, Synopsys, NVIDIA Omniverse, and third-party platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading technical strategy in high-stakes presales engagements, translating executive business objectives into scoped, defensible solution architectures with clear ROI and adoption paths

- Defining solution vision, functional and system architecture, integration patterns, data models, and deployment strategies across complex customer environments

- Partnering with sales, account teams, and regional leadership to identify and shape opportunities where integrated simulation, AI/ML, and workflow automation deliver measurable customer outcomes

- Driving technical feasibility assessments, risk mitigation planning, and governance for solution-led engagements, ensuring architectures are scalable and aligned to customer maturity

- Contributing to and validating proposals, SOWs, framework agreements, and work orders, including technical sections, milestones, and acceptance criteria

- Mentoring solution engineers and architects across regions, establishing reusable architecture patterns, and influencing product strategy through direct customer insights

The impact you will have includes:

- Shaping how Fortune 500 engineering organizations adopt and scale simulation-driven workflows that directly affect product development timelines and R&D efficiency

- Driving revenue growth by architecting solutions that win competitive, multi-million-dollar engagements and expand customer footprint across business units

- Influencing Synopsys product roadmap and strategy by surfacing real-world integration challenges, workflow gaps, and enterprise requirements from the field

- Establishing architecture standards and best practices that get reused across regions, reducing time to value and improving solution consistency for customers globally

Requirements include:

- Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline

- 10+ years of hands-on experience architecting and delivering engineering simulation, digital engineering, AI platforms, or enterprise technology solutions

- Deep expertise designing complex solutions using ANSYS and Synopsys multi-physics products, NVIDIA Omniverse, and related open-source or third-party technologies

- Proven track record leading solution-focused engagements for strategic or enterprise customers, including technical scoping, architecture definition, and stakeholder alignment

- Strong working knowledge of multi-physics simulation, workflow automation, optimization, AI/ML integration, data management, and enterprise system integration

- Exceptional ability to communicate technical architecture and business value to executive audiences, including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and IT leadership

- Willingness to travel up to 25% for customer engagements, workshops, and internal collaboration

## Skills

### Required
- ANSYS
- Synopsys
- NVIDIA Omniverse
- multi-physics simulation
- digital engineering
- AI/ML integration
- workflow automation
- enterprise system integration

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