Director - SoC Verification

Job Description

Director - SoC Verification

You have built a career at the intersection of deep SoC verification expertise and organizational leadership. You have closed coverage on complex multi-protocol designs and know that scaling verification across a services organization requires clear structure, strong leaders, and a strategy that holds when customer scope, timelines, and design complexity move at once.

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

Rewards and 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