{"id":2208875,"url":"https://alion.io/job/synopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804","title":"Principal SoC Solutions Engineer-18804","company":{"id":39954,"name":"Synopsys","domain":"synopsys.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/synopsys-inc","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Avature","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":80,"ghost_share":0.038,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.188,"time_to_fill_p50_days":14,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sunnyvale, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":156000,"max_usd":297000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":576},"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"SystemVerilog","optional":false},{"name":"Verilog","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-10T01:03:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-10","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T18:59:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"Job Description and Requirements\nYou Are:\nYou are an experienced SoC design, verification, or implementation engineerwith deep expertise in Memory Interface and Interface IP. You combine hands-on experience developing subsystem and/or SOC level designs, integrating complex IP subsystems into SoCs, validating full-system functionality, and supporting silicon bring-up. You have a proven track record of transforming advanced IP technologies into production-ready solutions and thrive on solving complex technical challenges while helping Synopsys customers successfully adopt industry-leading technologies.\nYou are passionate about working at the forefront of semiconductor innovation and enjoy collaborating with industry leaders to enable next-generation computing, AI, networking, automotive, and mobile platforms.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nLeading technical customer engagements for the integration, bring-up, and deployment of Memory Interface PHY and Controller IP, including HBM, DDR, and LPDDR solutions.\nDeveloping reference designs and subsystem-level architectures that demonstrate best practices for integrating Synopsys IP into complex SoC environments. Driving subsystem verification, validation, and silicon readiness to accelerate customer adoption and deployment.\nApplying hands-on expertise to integrate memory and interface IP into production SoC designs, with demonstrated success bringing subsystems from architecture and verification through silicon bring-up and production.\nSolving complex customer challenges involving IP integration, performance optimization, interoperability, silicon bring-up, and deployment across advanced design environments.\nServing as a key technical interface between customers and internal engineering teams to demonstrate integration methodologies, resolve technical issues, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate time-to-market.\nProviding technical leadership, training, workshops, and presentations to support customer implementation, architecture decisions, and technology adoption.\nBringingcustomer feedback and deployment insights back to product and engineering teams to improve product quality, usability, integration flows, and deployment readiness.\nStaying at the forefront of evolving industry technologies and architectures, including DDR5, LPDDR6, MRDIMM2, HBM4, PCIe, Ethernet, CXL, and UCIe, while helping shape how these technologies are adopted in next-generation SoC platforms.\nThe Impact You Will Have:\nAccelerate successful adoption and deployment of Synopsys Memory Interface and Interface IP by demonstrating proven integration methodologies, validated reference designs, and production-ready subsystem solutions.\nEnable customer success through deep technical expertise and hands-on experience integrating PHYs, Controllers, VIP, and memory components into complex SoC architectures.\nHelp customers reduce design risk and improve time-to-market through validated integration flows, silicon-proven solutions, and technical leadership.\nInfluence future product enhancements by connecting real-world customer requirements and deployment challenges with internal engineering and product teams.\nDrive adoption of next-generation interface technologies and contribute to industry-leading SoC architectures that power AI, hyperscale computing, networking, automotive, and mobile applications.\nReinforce Synopsys' leadership in advanced interface IP through technical excellence, innovation, and trusted customer partnerships.\nWhat You'll Need:\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, ideally with a VLSI focus.\n15+ years of industry experience in SoC design, verification, implementation, or silicon development. Hands-on experience with Memory Interface IP such as DDR, LPDDR, and HBM, or Interface IP such as PCIe, Ethernet, CXL, or UCIe.\nProven experience developing reference designs, integrating complex IP subsystems into SoCs, and successfully delivering silicon-proven solutions into production.\nHands-on experience with subsystem architecture, verification, silicon bring-up, system validation, and post-silicon problem-solving.\nStrong understanding of Controller IP, PHY integration, AMBA/AXI interfaces, ASIC design flows, SoC architecture, and backend design considerations.\nProficiency with Linux, Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation and debug environments, and modern ASIC development methodologies.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across customer, R&D, product, and engineering organizations.\nWho You Are:\nA hands-on technical leader who can independently architect, integrate, verify, and troubleshoot complex SoC subsystems.\nA successful track record of bringing advanced IP solutions from concept and integration through silicon validation and production deployment.\nA strong collaborator who can effectively bridge customer needs with product, architecture, and engineering teams.\nAn effective communicator capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear implementationguidance and best practices.\nA continuous learner who is energized by emerging technologies and enjoys working on architectures that shape the future of the semiconductor industry.\nThe Team You'll Be APart Of:\nYou will join a global team within the Interface IP Group focused on SoC Solutions and Customer Success across Memory Interface and Interface IP technologies. The team develops reference architectures, validates subsystem solutions, and works closely with leading semiconductor companies to enable successful deployment of next-generation IP technologies.\nThis role offers a unique opportunity to work directly with industry-leading SoC architects and engineering teams, gain exposure to cutting-edge semiconductor technologies, and play a key role in the success of emerging industry trends spanning AI, high-performance computing, networking, automotive, and mobile markets.\nRewards and Benefits:\nWe offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits. Details will be provided during the hiring process.\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. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6923,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Incident Response","EDA Software","Application Security","Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-10T01:03:19Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 178 · green card filings: 177","filings_12m":178,"filings_prev_12m":208,"green_card_filings_12m":177,"median_offered_wage_usd":157472,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":61}],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.84,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/synopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/synopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T19:50:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23889,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":39954},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=39954"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsynopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsynopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsynopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/synopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsynopsys-principal-soc-solutions-engineer-18804"}]}