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 principal-level role leads the technical side of the global compute and CAD infrastructure used for chip design, combining hands-on engineering with architecture and day-to-day operational ownership.

The scope covers Linux compute, engineering workspaces, project provisioning, LSF, EDA license servers, Perforce, monitoring and automation.

You will work alongside engineering, CAD and IT/IS teams to build environments that are scalable, reliable and consistent everywhere the company works.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for EDA compute infrastructure worldwide.
• Build and support Linux engineering environments, both interactive and batch.
• Partner with IT/IS on compute, storage, networking and server needs, and help plan capacity and technical roadmaps.
• Diagnose complex compute and environment failures, and automate work to make systems more reliable and less manual.
• Own and evolve the architecture for engineering projects and workspaces, including how they are created and initialized.
• Maintain project configuration infrastructure and connect it to PDKs, EDA tools and engineering workflows.
• Build extensible options that let project teams customize their setup while staying on a supported platform standard.
• Cut the manual steps involved in project setup and lifecycle management, and keep environments consistent across projects and sites.
• Lead technical direction for global EDA license-server infrastructure and create standard ways to deploy and administer licenses.
• Build and maintain automation for license updates, validation and auditing.
• Write robust Python, shell and other automation for CAD infrastructure, and maintain the shared utilities and scripts.
• Automate configuration generation, provisioning, monitoring and administration, and connect CAD systems to Jenkins/CI and service-management workflows where it makes sense.
• Improve observability, auditability and maintainability of infrastructure services.
• Build dashboards and metrics for engineering infrastructure, and track compute and license usage.
• Spot capacity, performance and reliability risks, and work with infrastructure teams on forward planning.
• Create ways to find wasteful use of shared engineering resources.
• Help define the supported Linux strategy for EDA environments, coordinate EDA tool compatibility with IT/IS, and support moves between Linux platform generations.
• Set clear engineering requirements for infrastructure standards, and separate application requirements from infrastructure operations ownership.
• Keep architecture and operations documentation current for critical CAD systems, including scripts, configuration, dependencies and recovery steps.
• Provide escalation support for the hardest infrastructure problems.
• Train CAD engineers and IT/IS staff so the team does not depend on a few individuals.
• Set up sustainable primary and backup ownership for critical services, and design resilience and failover approaches.
• Standardize license infrastructure across regional CAD teams and IT/IS, including capacity monitoring, planning, and reporting on availability and usage.
• Provide EDA expertise for LSF compute environments, and work with IT/IS on LSF architecture, provisioning and resource sharing.
• Measure compute utilization and efficiency, and automate detection of inefficient or problematic workloads.
• Connect project environments with batch compute and contribute to compute capacity planning.
• Give engineering-side expertise for Perforce server infrastructure and operations, including architecture used in semiconductor engineering.
• Work with IT/IS on server lifecycle, availability, storage, backup and operational ownership.
• Support administration and troubleshooting of engineering Perforce environments, and build automation and monitoring for them.
• Keep operational documentation and procedures for Perforce current.

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 a comparable distributed compute environment.
• Experience with enterprise version-control and data-management systems such as Perforce Helix and IPLM.
• Experience managing engineering projects and workspaces.
• Understanding of the compute, storage and network needs of EDA environments.
• Experience with EDA licensing and FlexNet-based license 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 skills in writing technical documentation and transferring knowledge to others.
• Highly Desirable: Perforce server administration and architecture experience.
• Highly Desirable: LSF administration or integration experience.
• Highly Desirable: FlexNet license-server architecture experience.
• Highly Desirable: Grafana or similar infrastructure monitoring experience.
• Highly Desirable: Jenkins/CI automation experience.
• Highly Desirable: ServiceNow integration experience.
• 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 prohibits discrimination based on any protected characteristic.

Benefits

• The company offers a competitive benefits package alongside salary, and more details will be shared during the hiring process.