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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.\nYou Are\nYou have spent years deep in the details of SoC and ASIC design, and you know the most valuable problems are solved at the intersection of customer needs, technical feasibility, and execution risk. You can walk into a room with a customer’s design team, uncover the real constraints behind the ask (power, performance, area, schedule, node, packaging, ecosystem), and translate those constraints into an IP solution that will still work months later during integration and bring-up.\nThis is a pre-sales, customer-facing Applications Engineering (FAE) role. You will partner closely with Sales and cross-functional internal teams to drive technical discovery, solution definition, customer evaluations/POCs, competitive positioning, and technical closure for Interface IP opportunities across Korea.\nYou do not just answer questions-you ask better ones. When a customer says they need a PCIe solution, you dig into their use case, process node, target data rates, channel assumptions, compliance needs, and timeline before proposing anything. You communicate with credibility: you can discuss SerDes signal integrity with a PHY engineer and then explain the business and risk tradeoffs to leadership without losing the thread.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nOwn the pre-sales technical lifecycle for Interface IP opportunities across Korea: requirements discovery, solution definition, technical presentations, customer evaluation/POC planning, and technical close\nWork directly with customer SoC architects and design teams to understand requirements and constraints, then recommend the right Interface IP solutions, including SerDes, PCIe, DDR, USB, MIPI, D2D, Ethernet\nLead technical evaluations and IP selection processes: define success criteria, evaluation plans, configuration recommendations, integration approach, and risk mitigation (performance/power/area/schedule)\nPartner with Sales/Account teams to shape win strategies, qualify opportunities, and align on customer decision process, stakeholders, and timelines\nDrive customer-facing technical engagements such as architecture workshops, deep dives, and design reviews; coordinate follow-ups and ensure action items close on time\nSupport competitive situations with strong technical differentiation: develop positioning, handle objections, and guide customers through tradeoffs vs. alternative solutions\nDrive PHY IP porting discussions and technical negotiations across process nodes and customer environments; align scope, assumptions, deliverables, and timelines with internal stakeholders\nServe as the technical bridge between customers and Synopsys R&D: translate customer issues into actionable engineering requests, drive prioritization, and ensure timely resolution during evaluations and integration\nContribute technical inputs to proposals and commercial execution, including RFI/RFP responses, technical sections of proposals, and scope/effort inputs (as applicable)\nOrganize and facilitate technical forums with customers, Sales, Marketing, Program Management, and Engineering to align on strategy, resolve standoffs, and drive decisions forward\nTrack emerging technology trends and customer needs across AI, automotive, and data center segments; feed field insights into product roadmap and go-to-market planning\nThe Impact You Will Have\nEnable customers to de-risk SoC programs by selecting the right IP early, reducing integration issues and time-to-market delays that can cost months and millions\nAccelerate IP adoption and customer success across Korea, directly influencing design wins and long-term partnerships in a critical semiconductor market\nIncrease technical win rates by driving high-quality discovery, evaluation success, and clear technical differentiation in competitive cycles\nReduce escalations and project friction by proactively identifying gaps between customer expectations and product capabilities, then working across teams to close them\nStrengthen Synopsys credibility with customer engineering teams and executives by providing clear, data-driven recommendations and execution-focused guidance\nInfluence IP roadmap and service offerings by representing the field perspective and real customer requirements in internal strategy discussions\nWhat You’ll Need\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or related field with 12+ years of experience; 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