Applications Engineering, Program Manager_ICV

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Applications Engineering, Program Manager_ICV

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Date posted: 04.21.2026

Job ID: 17118

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive planning and delivery risk monitoring for worldwide ICV runset development, coordinating across global teams and foundry partners
• Ensure committed runset deliverables are completed on time, holding teams accountable to schedules that directly impact customer tapeouts
• Proactively identify delivery risks, propose solutions using available resources, and negotiate trade-offs between scope, schedule, and priorities
• Communicate schedule status, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders including engineering leadership, foundry partners, and product management
• Develop and maintain systems for accurate forecasting and progress tracking, ensuring visibility into what is on track and what is slipping
• Continuously improve processes to increase productivity, quality, and on-time delivery across the runset development lifecycle
• Collaborate with runset team members to understand their workflows, dependencies, and constraints, and translate that into actionable program plans

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field with 10+ years of relevant experience in program or project management
• Proven program management skills across multiple technical projects, ideally in semiconductor, EDA, or related fields
• Familiarity with SoC design and IC manufacturing processes, enough to understand dependencies and speak credibly with engineers and foundry partners
• Experience working directly with customers or external partners, managing expectations and navigating competing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to quantify and communicate metrics that drive production delivery, not just report status but drive action
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, including the ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across distributed teams
• Experience managing programs in a global environment is a plus

Nice to Have

• SoC Design
• IC Manufacturing
• Metrics Communication
• Global Program Management

The Impact You Will Have

• Enable Synopsys to meet commitments to the world's leading foundries, directly supporting their process node rollouts and customer tapeout schedules
• Ensure that one of the fastest-growing products in EDA has the foundry runsets it needs to scale
• Reduce delivery risk and surprises by building visibility and accountability into a complex, multi-site development process
• Keep the team focused on the deliverables that matter most to Synopsys' strategic goals
• Create systems and processes that make it easier for future programs to forecast accurately and deliver predictably
• Ensure that leadership, customers, and engineering teams have a shared understanding of status and risk
• Help the ICV product line maintain its competitive edge by ensuring the development pipeline moves at the speed the market demands

The Team You'll Be Part Of

You will be part of a dynamic team focused on delivering the foundry runsets that fuel Synopsys' ICV product line. This team has members across the world collaborating with all of the major foundries in the semiconductor industry. ICV is one of the fastest-growing products in the EDA industry and is essential to meeting Synopsys' strategic goals.

We Offer

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.

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