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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. You Are\nYou have spent your career building and leading teams that ship advanced SerDes IP, and you understand that execution is everything. The difference between a program that delivers and one that slips is usually a decision made six months earlier, and you are the kind of leader who sees it coming and adjusts before it becomes a crisis.\nManaging distributed teams across time zones does not intimidate you. You create alignment between analog designers, verification engineers, and firmware developers while keeping customer commitments front and center. 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