[Hiring] Principal Application Engineer - EDA Verification @Synopsys

Role Description

We Are

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You Are

• You have spent years deep in verification and know the difference between a tool that works in a demo and one that holds up when a design team is three weeks from tapeout with a functional coverage gap they cannot explain.
• You are the engineer who walks into a room full of stressed designers, asks three clarifying questions, and finds the root cause while everyone else is still talking about symptoms.
• You do not just know the tools; you know how teams actually use them under pressure, where the workflows break, and what workarounds become technical debt six months later.
• You have debugged enough customer environments to spot a setup issue in minutes and enough design complexity to explain a formal property failure to someone who has never written one.
• You have embraced the emergence of AI in semiconductor engineering and understand both its potential and limitations.
• You recognize how AI can enhance EDA workflows by accelerating debug, assisting with assertion and property generation, improving coverage analysis, surfacing insights from large verification datasets, and helping engineers navigate increasingly complex designs.
• You know that AI delivers the greatest value when combined with strong engineering judgment and are comfortable helping customers integrate AI-driven capabilities into practical design and verification flows that improve productivity and accelerate time to results.
• Mentorship comes naturally to you; you have shown junior engineers how to think through a problem, not just how to run a command.
• You push back on R&D when a feature does not match what customers actually need, and you do it with enough technical grounding that they listen.

At Synopsys, you will work directly with the design teams building the chips that power everything, and the tools you support will be the ones they depend on when it matters most.

What You'll Be Doing

• Serve as the primary technical resource for key customers across Sweden and the Nordic region, supporting verification workflows using Synopsys EDA tools including VCS, Verdi, and VC Formal.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in customer design environments, working directly with design and verification teams on-site and remotely.
• Collaborate with Synopsys R&D teams to escalate critical customer issues, provide field feedback, and influence product roadmap based on real deployment challenges.
• Mentor and develop junior applications engineers, building their technical depth and customer engagement skills.
• Deliver technical presentations, training sessions, and best practice guidance to customer teams on verification methodologies and tool usage.
• Act as a regional technical leader, representing customer needs internally and driving solutions that improve both product capability and customer success.

The Impact You Will Have

• Enable Nordic customers to tape out complex semiconductor designs on schedule by resolving critical verification bottlenecks and tool deployment challenges.
• Accelerate junior team members' growth, building a stronger regional applications engineering capability that scales customer support across the territory.
• Shape Synopsys verification tool development by feeding high-quality field intelligence back to R&D, ensuring product evolution matches real-world design challenges.
• Strengthen customer relationships and technical trust, positioning Synopsys as the verification partner of choice for the region's leading semiconductor companies.
• Reduce time-to-resolution for escalated technical issues by bringing deep tool knowledge and customer environment expertise to every engagement.
• Drive adoption of advanced verification methodologies across your customer base, improving design quality and reducing costly respins.
• Build institutional knowledge within the European applications team, documenting solutions and best practices that benefit the broader organization.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related semiconductor or electronics discipline.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in semiconductor design, ASIC development, or EDA applications engineering.
• Strong foundation in digital design verification concepts, methodologies, and flows.
• Based in or near Stockholm, Sweden, with opportunity to travel regularly within the Nordic region and occasionally internationally.
• Proven ability to work directly with customer engineering teams, diagnose technical issues in complex environments, and drive them to resolution.
• Experience with Synopsys verification tools such as VCS, Verdi, or VC Formal is a strong plus.
• Solid communication skills in English, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.

Who You Are

• You can walk into a customer site, assess a broken verification environment, and have a working theory within the first hour.
• Mentorship is not a checkbox for you; when a junior engineer gets stuck, you sit with them long enough to make sure they understand the why, not just the fix.
• You push back when it matters; if a customer request does not make technical sense or an R&D solution misses the actual problem, you say so and bring the data to back it up.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity; customer environments are messy, requirements are incomplete, and you move forward anyway without waiting for perfect information.
• You manage your own calendar, your customer commitments, and your travel logistics without needing someone to keep you on track.
• You can explain a complex verification concept to a hardware engineer who has never used formal tools and make it clear enough that they can try it themselves the next day.

The Team You'll Be Part Of

You will join the European EDA Applications Engineering Team, a regionally distributed group of technical specialists supporting Synopsys verification customers across Europe. The team works closely with R&D, sales, and field applications engineers globally, and you will have the opportunity to mentor junior team members while collaborating with senior technical leaders across the organization. Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.