I worked at Synopsys for 11 years until I retired. Very diverse types of software engineers. I was in the hardware IP group (versus say the EDA or security busi

I worked at Synopsys for 11 years until I retired. Very diverse types of software engineers. I was in the hardware IP group (versus say the EDA or security businesses). My team had embedded software engineers, Linux kernel hackers, compiler developers, machine learning/AI tool developers and Java GUI programmer, all with some knowledge of underlying processor hardware. T The profile of those engineers was different from the EDA software developers. And the Coverity/security teams were rather different from all of the above. I particularly enjoyed my senior architect helping our hardware IP developers improve their RTL develpment via teaching good sofware engineering techniques and by building a Javascript-based tool for helping to automate writing of Verilog before it was fed into the Synopsys Design Compiler.