
Project Engineering Manager, Customer Quality Champion-19007
Required skills
- customer quality
- customer success
- continuous improvement
- semiconductor
- digital IP
- mixed-signal IP
- verification
- integration
- signoff
- silicon validation
Nice to have
- customer advocate
- voice of the customer
- escalation management
- quality operating rhythms
- metrics
- action tracking
Role summary
Synopsys is seeking an experienced Project Engineering Manager to serve as a Customer Quality Champion. This role focuses on building trusted customer relationships, driving successful outcomes, and improving product quality within the semiconductor industry. The manager will lead cross-functional problem-solving, manage escalations using methodologies like 8D and RCCA, and identify/mitigate quality risks. Key responsibilities include driving quality operating rhythms, improving customer satisfaction, reducing escalations, and strengthening product quality through risk management and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has a BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 10+ years of semiconductor experience and expertise in IP development, verification, integration, and quality systems.
Descriptions & Requirements
Job Description and RequirementsWe Are
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.
You Are
An experienced semiconductor Project Engineering leader with a passion for customer success, quality excellence, and continuous improvement. You combine strong customer quality leadership with deep semiconductor expertise and a solid understanding of digital and/or mixed-signal IP development, verification, integration, and signoff methodologies.
You are a trusted customer advocate who can drive cross-functional alignment, lead complex quality initiatives, and strengthen product quality, customer satisfaction, and execution performance.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Serve as the Customer Quality Champion for assigned strategic customers, building trusted relationships, representing the voice of the customer, and driving successful outcomes.
- Develop deep understanding of customer workflows, product use, silicon bring-up, and debug challenges to assess quality risks, customer impact, and execution priorities.
- Lead cross-functional problem-solving and escalation management, driving 8D, RCCA, corrective and preventive actions through clear communication and closure.
- Proactively identify and mitigate customer quality and execution risks, translating feedback, bring-up findings, and lessons learned into systemic improvement actions.
- Drive quality operating rhythms and improvement programs through reviews, dashboards, metrics, action tracking, and clear tradeoff decisions across schedule, quality, and customer impact.
The Impact You Will Have
- Improve customer satisfaction, trust, and long-term partnerships through consistent quality execution and responsiveness.
- Reduce customer escalations by improving turnaround time, resolution effectiveness, and proactive issue management.
- Strengthen product quality and release readiness through risk management, prevention, and continuous improvement.
- Improve customer quality metrics, scorecards, and business review outcomes through disciplined quality focus and follow-through.
- Drive organizational alignment and accountability around customer requirements, commitments, and systemic issue resolution.
What You’ll Need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience in engineering, quality, verification, methodology, program management, or customer-facing technical leadership.
- Strong digital and/or mixed-signal IP methodology expertise, including development, verification, integration, signoff, silicon validation, and bring-up.
- Proven experience leading customer escalations, 8Ds, RCCAs, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives in complex semiconductor environments.
- Strong understanding of semiconductor product development, quality systems, risk management, and release-readiness processes, with the ability to lead cross-functional programs and drive results without direct authority.
- Excellent communication, executive presentation, stakeholder management, and execution discipline, including use of dashboards, metrics, status reporting, and tools such as Microsoft Project, Confluence, and Jira.
Who You Are
- A customer advocate and trusted advisor who builds credibility and long-term partnerships.
- A strong technical and quality leader with the judgment to guide complex customer and engineering situations.
- A structured problem solver who drives accountability, closure, and systemic issue resolution.
- A proactive risk manager who anticipates customer impact and acts early to prevent escalation.
- An effective communicator and champion of continuous improvement who works across customers, executives, and engineering teams.
Team you will be a part of:
You will work across Engineering, Verification, Methodology, Quality, Program Management, and Customer Support organizations to strengthen customer relationships, improve product quality, and drive continuous improvement across Synopsys.
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.
In 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.
General Information
Job Title Project Engineering Manager, Customer Quality Champion-19007 Job ID 19007 City Sunnyvale State/Province California Date Posted 28-Sep-2026 Job Category Engineering Job Subcategory Project Engineering Management Hire Type Employee Remote Eligible No Base Salary Range: $188600 - $282900Sample Synopsys interview questions
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Can you discuss the role and importance of DMA addressing in system design?
technicalmedium - 2
Please provide a brief explanation of semaphores and how they function. What situations call for their use?
system designmedium - 3
In your opinion, what are the optimal methods for handling errors in embedded systems?
system designmedium - 4
Can you discuss the role and functionality of a watchdog timer?
system designmedium - 5
Can you outline a strategy for developing a software system to manage hot pluggable cable de-bouncing?
system designmedium
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