Senior Staff CAD Engineer

Description

The company makes embedded semiconductors for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets, with more than 21,000 engineers across over 30 countries.

This is a technical leadership role over the company's worldwide compute and CAD infrastructure. It combines hands-on engineering with architecture and day-to-day operational ownership of Linux compute, engineering workspaces, project provisioning, LSF, EDA license servers, Perforce, monitoring and automation.

You would work with engineering, CAD and IT/IS teams to build environments that scale, stay reliable and remain consistent across sites, supporting semiconductor development.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for worldwide EDA compute, covering interactive and batch environments, and contribute to capacity planning and roadmaps.
• Build and maintain Linux engineering environments, and work with IT/IS on compute, storage, networking and server needs.
• Troubleshoot difficult compute and environment failures, and write automation that reduces manual administration and raises reliability.
• Take ownership of the project and workspace architecture as it evolves, including creation, initialization and configuration, and the links between configuration, PDKs, EDA tools and workflows.
• Give project teams extension points to customize their setup while keeping a supported platform standard, and cut manual steps across project setup and lifecycle.
• Lead global EDA license-server infrastructure: define standard deployment and administration methods, and automate updates, validation, auditing, and monitoring and reporting of availability and use.
• Write robust Python, shell and other tooling for configuration generation, provisioning, monitoring and administration, and connect CAD systems to Jenkins/CI and service-management workflows where suitable.
• Improve observability, auditability and maintainability. Build dashboards and metrics, track compute and license use, spot capacity, performance and reliability risks, and find wasteful use of shared resources.
• Guide the Linux OS strategy for EDA, coordinate tool compatibility with IT/IS, support platform migrations, and define clear infrastructure requirements that separate application needs from operational ownership.
• Provide EDA expertise for LSF-based batch compute: work with IT/IS on architecture, provisioning and sharing, monitor efficiency, support project-to-batch integration, and automate detection of problem jobs.
• Provide engineering-side expertise for Perforce server architecture and operations. Align with IT/IS about server lifecycle, availability, storage and backup, support administration and troubleshooting, and build automation and monitoring.
• Keep architecture, operations, script, dependency and recovery documentation current. Serve as the escalation point, train CAD and IT/IS engineers, set primary and backup ownership for critical services, and design resilience and failover strategies.
• Standardize license infrastructure globally with regional CAD teams and IT/IS, and support license-capacity monitoring and planning.

Requirements

• Significant experience in EDA/CAD infrastructure engineering within semiconductor development.
• Strong Linux or Unix skills.
• Strong scripting and automation skills, preferably in Python and shell.
• Experience with LSF or comparable distributed compute environments.
• Experience with enterprise version control and data management infrastructure, such as Perforce Helix and IPLM.
• Experience managing engineering projects and workspaces.
• Understanding of compute, storage and network requirements for EDA environments.
• Experience with EDA licensing and FlexNet-based environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience building production-quality engineering automation.
• Ability to work across global engineering, CAD and IT/IS organizations.
• Strong technical writing and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Highly desirable: Perforce server administration and architecture.
• Highly desirable: LSF administration or integration experience.
• Highly desirable: FlexNet license-server architecture.
• Highly desirable: Grafana or similar infrastructure monitoring.
• Highly desirable: Jenkins/CI automation.
• Highly desirable: ServiceNow integration.
• Highly desirable: Cadence or other major semiconductor EDA tool experience.
• Highly desirable: Linux infrastructure and RHEL migration experience.
• Highly desirable: experience supporting geographically distributed engineering environments.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not discriminate on protected grounds.

Benefits

• A competitive benefits package alongside salary, with details shared during the hiring process.