# 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 an experienced engineering and project management professional with a strong customer focus and a passion for delivering high-quality results. With 10+ years of experience, you thrive in dynamic environments, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, and communicate effectively at all organizational levels.

**Responsibilities:**

- Partner with cross-functional engineering, product, and business teams to define project scope, requirements, and success criteria.

- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including schedules, resource allocation, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.

- Track project execution against plan, proactively identify risks and issues, and drive mitigation, escalation, and resolution.

- Communicate project status, milestones, and key risks to internal stakeholders and senior leadership with clarity and transparency.

- Represent R&D in customer engagements, ensuring alignment on commitments, execution plans, and delivery expectations.

- Evaluate and manage change requests and technical issues reported by customers, coordinating timely and effective responses.

- Manage product updates triggered silicon process updates, design updates, and customer feedback

- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and IP Program Management teams during pre-sales and post-sales activities.

- Ensure adherence to quality management system processes and drive continuous improvement in project execution.

- Mentor and guide team members, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and innovative working environment.

**The Impact You Will Have:**

- Enable the successful delivery of complex engineering programs on time, within scope, and within budget.

- Improve product quality, performance, and reliability, driving higher customer satisfaction and long-term partnerships.

- Establish and refine project management best practices that increase execution predictability and efficiency.

- Strengthen cross-functional alignment and collaboration across engineering, business, and customer-facing teams.

- Support the growth and evolution of the Synopsys IP and product portfolio by aligning technical execution with strategic business objectives.

- Reinforce Synopsys’ reputation as a technology leader through excellence in delivery, innovation, and customer impact.

**Requirements:**

- A degree in Engineering, Applied Science, or equivalent practical experience.

- 10+ years of experience in customer-facing project or program management roles within an engineering environment.

- Strong ability to manage customer expectations and communicate complex technical topics clearly and concisely.

- Proficiency with project management tools (MS Project preferred) and issue-tracking systems such as Jira.

- Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments.

- Familiarity with the development process for Mixed-Signal IP, SoC, or ASIC development programs.

- Understanding of quality management system (QMS) processes and procedures.

- Excellent organizational, time-management, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- engineering
- customer-facing
- MS Project
- Jira
- UNIX/Linux
- Mixed-Signal IP
- SoC
- ASIC

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