SoC Verification - Director

Job Title: Director - SoC Verification

Overview

You will lead verification for the System Solutions Group and shape how Synopsys delivers complex SoC services to customers who depend on us to get it right.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 15+ 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family
• In addition to company holidays, we have ETO and FTO Programs
• Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more
• Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24-month look-back
• Save for your future with our retirement plans that vary by region and country
• Competitive salaries