SoC Performance Verification R&D Engineer at Synopsys in Seongnam-si

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At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability. Job Description and Requirements We Are Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. 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 You have spent a decade or more building and verifying SoC designs that actually have to ship, and you know the difference between a transactor that works in a lab and one that holds up under real customer workloads. Emulation is not just a checkbox for you, it is the proving ground where you catch the issues that would cost months if they slipped to silicon. You have debugged enough AMBA AXI and CHI traffic to know when something smells wrong three layers deep in a trace, and you can explain what you found to both the RTL designer who wrote it and the customer engineer who has to live with it. You think in systems. Cache controllers, memory interfaces, interconnects, you understand how they fit together and where the performance bottlenecks hide. Building a transactor in SystemVerilog or C++ is second nature, but what sets you apart is knowing which abstraction level to choose and when to push back on a requirement that will not scale. Working with global teams and customers does not faze you. You have run technical calls across time zones, explained complex verification strategies in English to stakeholders who needed clarity fast, and delivered solutions that actually got deployed. At Synopsys, you will work on ZeBu emulation platforms that verify the SoCs powering mobile, automotive, and AI systems worldwide. What You'll Be Doing Develop and deploy SoC performance verification solutions on the ZeBu emulator, including transactor models, protocol checkers, and CI/CD automation frameworks Build emulation-based transactors for standard protocols like AMBA AXI and CHI, as well as custom SoC-specific protocols, using SystemVerilog and C++ Debug and optimize performance verification environments for mobile AP designs, working across cache controllers, LPDDR memory controllers, and system interconnects Provide direct technical support to customers deploying ZeBu for SoC performance validation, troubleshooting emulation setup, transactor integration, and performance bottlenecks Collaborate with Synopsys headquarters and regional teams to define verification IP roadmaps, contribute to product enhancements, and align solutions with customer needs Lead technical discussions and design reviews with customers and internal teams, communicating complex verification trade-offs clearly and driving decisions Maintain and improve existing verification components, ensuring they scale with evolving SoC architectures and industry protocol standards The Impact You Will Have Enable customers to catch critical performance and functional issues in their SoC designs before tapeout, saving months of silicon respins and time-to-market delays Expand the capabilities of ZeBu emulation platforms by delivering transactors and solutions that support the latest AMBA specifications and custom customer protocols Strengthen Synopsys' position in the Korea market by providing world-class technical support that turns complex customer challenges into successful deployments Drive adoption of best-in-class SoC performance verification methodologies that improve efficiency and coverage across mobile, automotive, and AI design teams Contribute directly to product development by feeding real customer use cases and pain