Semiconductor IP and SoC platform for touch, display, biometrics, and AI connectivity
Synaptics designs specialized silicon for human-machine interfaces across consumer electronics, automotive, and enterprise devices. The company is actively adopting generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot) and security/observability platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel) while maintaining a deep embedded systems stack (ARM Cortex-M, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, ASIC design). Hiring velocity is accelerating with a heavy tilt toward engineering roles (51 of 84 open positions) and staff-level engineers (26), signaling scaling of silicon design and test automation alongside manufacturing efficiency initiatives.
Notable leadership hires: Sales Director
Synaptics is a publicly traded semiconductor company (Nasdaq: SYNA) founded in 1986 and headquartered in San Jose. The company develops custom SoCs and IP cores for touch sensing, display drivers, optical biometrics, wireless connectivity (Bluetooth, WLAN), and AI-enhanced audio/vision processing. Customers include device makers integrating these technologies into phones, IoT devices, automotive systems, and smart home platforms. With 1,001–5,000 employees across engineering centers in the US, UK, Poland, Taiwan, China, and India, Synaptics operates both as a design house and manages OSAT (outsourced assembly and test) supply-chain cost and yield. Current operational focus spans yield improvement, manufacturing automation, AI-native MCU solutions, and cost optimization for inference.
Synaptics uses C/C++, Python, MATLAB, Perl for design and simulation; Terraform and CloudFormation for infrastructure; Jenkins, GitLab, and Gerrit for CI/CD; AWS (including EKS) and Docker/Kubernetes for compute; and embedded runtimes ARM Cortex-M, FreeRTOS, and ThreadX for SoC firmware.
Synaptics is hiring across the United States, Taiwan, China, India, United Kingdom, Poland, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with headquarters in San Jose, California.
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