# Project Engineering Management, Principal Engineer

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $189000-$283000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You are a program leader who has spent over a decade in the semiconductor world, building both the technical depth to understand digital design flows and the program muscle to move cross-functional teams toward a shared goal.

At Synopsys, you will work at the intersection of digital IP development, AI methodology adoption, and EDA tooling, driving programs that shape how semiconductor design gets done.

### What You'll Be Doing

- Manage execution of multiple programs focused on digital design flows, AI methodology deployment, and operational improvements across Interface IP R&D teams

- Partner with technical leaders across engineering disciplines, product teams, and EDA technology experts to define program objectives, scope, and deliverables

- Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans, dashboards, and analytics that track progress, surface risks, and enable data-driven decision making

- Collaborate with senior leadership to align program goals with company strategy and ensure visibility into critical business initiatives

- Present program status, risks, and outcomes to executive audiences, translating technical complexity into clear business impact

- Run team operations including newsletters, internal websites, Jira tracking, and cross-functional coordination mechanisms

- Work across global teams to identify workflow gaps, drive operational improvements, and enable adoption of best-in-class digital methodologies

### The Impact You Will Have

- Scale the adoption of advanced digital methodologies and AI practices across multiple digital IP product lines, directly improving design productivity and quality

- Influence cross-functional teams to adopt new workflows and tools ahead of industry trends, strengthening Synopsys market position

- Drive measurable project success by closing workflow gaps, enabling operational improvements, and reducing time-to-market for IP releases

- Enable communication and coordination across geographically distributed teams, ensuring alignment and reducing friction in complex program execution

- Facilitate smooth execution of Digital Methodology team initiatives that directly affect how hundreds of engineers design and verify semiconductor IP

- Support advancement of innovations in quality, productivity, and execution excellence that become repeatable practices across the organisation

- Create visibility into program health and technical progress that allows leadership to make faster, better-informed decisions

### What You'll Need

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or related discipline

- 10+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry with a strong foundation in digital design, verification, or EDA tooling

- Proven experience as a Technical Program Manager leading complex, cross-functional programs in semiconductor development environments

- Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, build program plans, and drive execution to completion

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing and presenting to executive audiences

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to create dashboards, track metrics, and use data to drive decisions

- Understanding of artificial intelligence or machine learning methodologies and their application to semiconductor design flows

- Familiarity with MS Office Suite, Unix, and Perforce

- Experience with digital front-end flows, Synopsys verification tools, and Fusion Compiler is a plus

- PMP or other relevant program management certifications are a plus

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- digital design
- verification
- EDA tooling
- project management
- communication
- analytical skills
- AI methodologies
- MS Office Suite
- Unix
- Perforce

### Nice to have
- digital front-end flows
- Synopsys verification tools
- Fusion Compiler
- PMP

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