Senior Director, Product & Applications Engineering

About You

As a senior leader within interface IP engineering group, you will be responsible for driving customer impact at scale, modernizing custom engagement model through AI, and developing high-performing global teams. You will bridge customer needs, business priorities, and technical execution to advance the Synopsys’ billion-dollar interface IP business to the next phase of growth. This role is pivotal in transitioning the organization from the traditional engagement models to data-driven, AI-augmented, and repeatable execution success while maintaining deep technical credibility with top customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a global product and applications engineering organization guiding customers, from HPC to automotive, through the full SoC journey using Synopsys interface IPs including DDR, HBM, and other high-speed interfaces.
• Own execution quality and outcomes for complex, high-visibility customer engagements from IP configuration and integration to silicon bring-up and production.
• Serve as a trusted partner to customer engineering leadership, shaping collaboration models and long-term technical engagement strategies.
• Drive cross-functional alignment to translate customer challenges into structured technical strategies and influence IP roadmaps by surfacing systemic pain points and execution bottlenecks.
• Act as the AI and digital transformation leader, championing adoption of AI tools in daily workflows and defining success metrics for efficiency, quality, and engineer enablement.
• Build, mentor, and retain senior technical leaders and next-generation experts across a geographically distributed team, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Impact Profile

• Scales expertise through AI and disciplined execution, bringing the agentic AI revolution into the real world of engineering at enterprise scale.
• Strengthens customer confidence by delivering consistent, predictable, and high-quality technical outcomes across engagements.
• Elevates organizational maturity by standardizing best practices and modernizing execution models for speed, quality, and repeatability.
• Builds the next generation of leaders, enabling the business to scale.

What You’ll Need:

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent depth of industry experience.
• 10+ years of semiconductor industry leadership experience, with recognized expertise in silicon development, silicon bring-up, and validation, particularly across memory and high-speed interface technologies.
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing global engineering organizations, with demonstrated impact at scale.
• Hands on experience with SOC development including design, verification or implementation, interface IP development or integration, especially around DDR memories and/or HBM memories.
• Exceptional executive-level communication and influence skills, with the ability to engage credibly with customers, partners, and internal leadership at the most senior levels.
• Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional strategy and execution, navigating complex stakeholder environments to deliver business-critical outcomes.

Who You Are:

• Strong systems thinking and operational discipline
• Proven leadership in transformation initiatives
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management
• Passion for leveraging AI to elevate engineering effectiveness