R&D Engineering, Staff Engineer - 19278
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026. Synopsys scores A on the Alion truth index.
Job Description and Requirements
Role: Project Manager
We Are:
At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.
You Are:
You are anproject operations professional who wants to grow your skills while helping a team manage complex work. You take ownership of assigned coordination, ask good questions, and learn how to turn many inputs into a clear way of working.
You listen carefully, write in plain language, and help people adopt a shared process. You are comfortable working with engineers, project leads, and leaders as you learn from more experienced teammates.
This is a full-time role.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Help define and improve workflows that let the cybersecurity team manage projects at scale.
- Gather needs from project teams, partner teams, leaders, and advisory council participants.
- Translate those needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate work across software development, inter-team activities, executive updates, and advisory council elements.
- Keep dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions visible in Jira and Confluence.
- Prepare status updates, dashboards, and materials that leaders can use.
- Support Agile planning, reviews, and re-prioritization when project needs change.
- Support adoption through pilots, onboarding, guidance, and feedback from users.
- Test new platform workflows and document what works and what should change.
- Learn project operations and platform practices with guidance from more experienced teammates.
The Impact You Will Have:
- Help the cybersecurity team and linked teams manage more work with a shared way of working.
- Make project status, risks, and decisions easier for leaders to see.
- Reduce missed handoffs across software development, partner teams, and advisory council work.
- Give executive updates a consistent source of current information.
- Help teams adopt the platform through clear guidance and practical feedback.
- Contribute to a platform that can support a growing set of projects.
- Make visible contributions ina small team where individual follow-through matters.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Atleast4 years in project coordination, operations, program support, or a related role.
- Working knowledge of Agile planning and delivery.
- Working experience with Jira and Confluence for tickets, documentation, and project tracking.
- Experience creating or maintaining dashboards and status reports that leaders can use.
- Ability to organize requirements, dependencies, and decisions so others can act on them.
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Willingness to learn how cybersecurity projects and linked work are planned and reported.
- Helpful: experience contributing to software development. This is not required.
- Helpful: experience with communications that help people understand and adopt a new process.
Who You Are:
- Eager to learn and grow toward greater independence.
- Organized and reliable, with follow-through on assigned work.
- Comfortable asking questions and using feedback.
- Able to explain work clearly to different audiences.
- Collaborative with people outside your own team.
- Curious about how workflows can be simpler and more consistent.
- Thoughtful when information is incomplete, and willing to state assumptions.
- Accountable for the work you own.
The Team You’ll Be APart Of:
Our team is building a platform that helps the cybersecurity organization manage its projects, and the projects it is linked to, at scale. That work includes software development, coordination with partner teams, executive updates, and advisory council activities. You will work with a small group of technical and domain experts, learn from more experienced teammates, and help teams adopt workflows they can use every day.
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.
At 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.