# Silicon Validation Lead, Principal Engineer - 19499

Job Description and Requirements We Are: At Synopsys, we drive innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology powers the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, leading in chip design, verification, and IP integration. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation. You Are: You are an accomplished engineer with deep expertise in silicon validation and high-speed serial communication systems. You thrive in bridging simulation and silicon realities, ensuring robust performance across complex architectures. You combine strong theoretical knowledge with hands-on lab experience, excel in cross-functional collaboration, and are passionate about closing the loop between validation and architecture for continuous platform improvement. What You’ll Be Doing: Leading silicon validation of IP functionality and performance, ensuring alignment with architectural intent. Supporting hardware bring-up and firmware integration for early product-version characterization. Driving root-cause analysis, workarounds, and fixes for issues uncovered during characterization. Managing a dedicated validation effort in parallel with characterization activities. Validatin

- **Id**: 3784305
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/synopsys-silicon-validation-lead-principal-engineer-19499>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T02:46:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:17:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3987
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EDA Software, Simulation & Digital Twin Software, Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services

## Company

- **Id**: 39954
- **Name**: Synopsys
- **Domain**: synopsys.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/synopsys-inc>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Avature

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 99
- **Open postings**: 60
- **Ghost share**: 0.05
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.183
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 18
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T02:46:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 178 · green card filings: 177; Filings 12m: 178

## Liveness

- **Score**: 89
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.89
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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