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Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart Everything-where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. We help customers innovate from silicon to systems, enabling faster, smarter, and more reliable engineering outcomes.\nYou Are\nYou are an expert-level, customer-facing technical leader who thrives in ambiguity and operates with a high degree of autonomy. You combine deep engineering and architecture expertise with strong executive communication skills, and you enjoy translating complex customer problems into scalable solutions. You’re comfortable leading solution strategy from early discovery through proposal, aligning cross-functional teams, and mentoring others. You bring practical experience applying Agentic AI and Physical AI concepts to real engineering workflows, and you know how to integrate simulation, digital engineering, and enterprise systems to deliver measurable business impact.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nAct as a trusted technical advisor to executive, engineering, and IT stakeholders at strategic and enterprise customer accounts.\nPartner with Sales, account teams, and regional leadership to identify high-value opportunities where integrated simulation, digital engineering, and Agentic/Physical AI deliver measurable outcomes.\nLead customer discovery workshops and ideation sessions to translate business objectives into clear engineering requirements, workflows, and architectural components.\nDefine and document solution vision, roadmap, value drivers, risks, and adoption strategies aligned to customer outcomes.\nArchitect end-to-end customer solutions leveraging multiple Synopsys technologies and, where appropriate, partner/third-party ecosystems (e.g., NVIDIA Omniverse).\nDesign Agentic AI solution patterns (tool-using agents, workflow orchestration, guardrails, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop) and Physical AI workflows (simulation-driven data generation, digital twins, surrogate modeling, and closed-loop optimization).\nDefine functional and technical architectures, including process flows, data models, integrations, and deployment patterns (on-prem, cloud, hybrid).\nLead technical feasibility assessments and risk mitigation for complex, solution-focused engagements, including AI reliability, validation, IP protection, and data governance considerations.\nEstablish and promote reusable solution architecture patterns and best practices across regions and industries.\nContribute to proposals and customer deliverables, including technical sections of SOWs, framework agreements, and work orders.\nMentor and technically guide solution engineers, architects, and consultants across regions and functions.\nBuild strong internal partnerships across Sales, Application Engineering, Product Management, and AI/ML teams; provide customer-driven insights to influence product strategy and roadmap.\nRepresent Synopsys as a technical leader with customers and partners through executive briefings, technical reviews, and solution presentations.\nThe Impact You’ll Have\nDrive revenue growth and customer success by shaping solution strategy for strategic and enterprise accounts.\nAccelerate customer adoption of integrated simulation, digital engineering, and Agentic/Physical AI workflows that improve cycle time, quality, and engineering productivity.\nReduce delivery risk and increase scalability by establishing repeatable solution architecture patterns and best practices.\nStrengthen Synopsys’ technical leadership in the market by influencing customer roadmaps and informing product strategy with real-world requirements.\nElevate team capability through mentorship and cross-regional technical leadership.\nWhat You Need\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical field.\n10+ years of experience in engineering simulation, digital engineering, Agentic AI and/or Physical AI platforms, or enterprise technology solutions.\nDemonstrated expertise architecting complex solutions using multiple Synopsys and/or multi-physics simulation products, plus integration with partner/third-party ecosystems (including open-source technologies where relevant).\nHands-on experience designing and delivering: Agentic AI workflows (LLM/tool integration, orchestration, retrieval/RAG, evaluation, guardrails)\n Physical AI workflows (simulation-to-AI, surrogate modeling, digital twins, optimization, closed-loop systems)\n\nProven experience leading solution-focused engagements for strategic and enterprise customers from discovery through proposal and solution definition.\nStrong understanding of simulation workflows, automation, optimization, data management, and enterprise integration patterns.\nExceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including executive-level audiences.\nAbility to travel up to 25%.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience leading or supporting large-scale digital transformation or simulation-led engineering initiatives incorporating AI agents or simulation-driven AI.\nExperience mentoring senior technical professionals across distributed teams.\nFamiliarity with AI governance, model risk management, and enterprise deployment considerations (security, compliance, observability).\nIndustry recognition as a technical leader or solution architect.\nAt Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.\nIn addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. 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