General / Corporate Counsel – Principal
About the job
- A J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar are required.
- Eight to ten years of legal experience are required, with cybersecurity matters comprising a substantial part of the practice.
- Significant experience advising on cybersecurity incident response, forensic investigations, breach-notification analysis, customer notifications, and regulatory reporting is required.
- Experience interpreting and applying U.S. and international cybersecurity, data-protection, and incident-response requirements is required.
- Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in customer and vendor agreements is required.
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity principles, information security practices, cloud environments, data governance, and commonly used security frameworks and standards is required.
- Ability to independently manage complex, time-sensitive legal matters involving multiple technical, legal, and business stakeholders is required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain complex legal and technical issues clearly to legal and non-legal audiences are required.
- Applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), including U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, political asylees, refugees, or other protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
- Serve as a primary legal advisor during actual or suspected cybersecurity incidents, coordinating with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Communications, Human Resources, and business teams.
- Assess legal, regulatory, contractual, and business obligations arising from cybersecurity incidents, including notification obligations to customers, regulators, business partners, senior management, and the Board, as appropriate.
- Advise on investigation and forensic-response processes, including preservation of privilege, engagement of external counsel and forensic vendors, documentation of key decisions, and post-incident remediation.
- Provide legal guidance on U.S. and international cybersecurity laws, breach-notification requirements, regulatory inquiries, and related compliance obligations affecting company systems, data, products, customers, partners, and vendors.
- Draft, review, and negotiate cybersecurity, information security, privacy, and data-protection provisions in customer, partner, and vendor agreements.
- Negotiate provisions involving security controls, encryption, data handling, incident reporting and response times, audit rights, security standards, vulnerability management, allocation of responsibilities, and third-party risk.
- Partner with technical and compliance subject-matter experts to translate the company’s security capabilities and risk positions into clear contract language and practical negotiation strategies.
- Support cybersecurity governance and compliance initiatives.
- Provide practical day-to-day counseling regarding cybersecurity, data protection and governance, enterprise IT operations, and related technology risks.
- Collaborate across Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Engineering, Product Management, Commercial, Procurement, and other functions to enable business progress while managing risk thoughtfully.
- Experience advising a global technology company, whether in-house or in private practice, is strongly preferred.
- Experience with semiconductor, software, SaaS, cloud, AI, or other technology businesses is a plus.
About the company
Synopsys provides software tools and services for electronic design automation (EDA), helping engineers design, simulate, verify, and optimize semiconductor chips and systems. Its products cover the full design flow, including RTL-to-gating synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, verification, and silicon validation, as well as software integrity solutions and hardware-assisted verification. Engineers use these tools to model, simulate, and validate complex chip designs before manufacturing, reducing bugs and improving performance. Compared with many competitors, Synopsys differentiates itself through its broad, end-to-end design toolchain, large ecosystem of IP and integration with simulation and modeling capabilities gained from its 2025 merger with ANSYS, and its global scale and support. The company aims to help designers push the boundaries of chip and system performance, accelerate time-to-market, and enable silicon-to-systems design across a wide range of industries.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Founded
1986
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Synopsys raised fiscal 2027 revenue guidance to $11.15 billion on September 30, 2026.
- Management targets roughly 50% operating margin by fiscal 2030 and $1 billion buybacks.
- Ansys synergies finish early in fiscal 2027, supporting faster margin expansion.
What critics are saying
- China export restrictions slowed new projects and cut IP revenue in 2026.
- Synopsys cut 128 Sunnyvale jobs after prior 10% restructuring, signaling integration strain.
- Customers like Samsung are building in-house manufacturing tools, threatening long-term lock-in.
What makes Synopsys unique
- Synopsys and Ansys now span EDA, simulation, and silicon IP after July 2025.
- Synopsys locked AWS into a $1 billion-plus IP deal on September 30, 2026.
- GPT-Synopsys with OpenAI gives Synopsys proprietary AI workflows competitors lack.
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