Senior Staff CAD Engineer

Description

The company is a semiconductor firm with a global team of over 21,000 engineers in more than 30 countries, building technology for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets.

This principal-level role provides technical leadership for the global engineering compute and CAD infrastructure used in semiconductor development.

The work mixes hands-on engineering with architecture and operational ownership across Linux compute, engineering workspaces, project provisioning, LSF integration, EDA license servers, Perforce, monitoring and automation.

You will work with engineering, CAD and IT/IS teams to build environments that scale, stay reliable and remain consistent across all sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of global EDA compute infrastructure, covering interactive and batch environments.
• Build and support Linux-based engineering environments, and work with IT/IS on compute, storage, networking and server needs.
• Help plan infrastructure capacity and set technical roadmaps.
• Troubleshoot complex compute and environment problems, and automate work to improve reliability and cut manual administration.
• Own and develop the project and workspace architecture, including creation and initialization mechanisms and project configuration.
• Keep environment setup consistent across projects and sites, and connect project configuration, PDKs, EDA tools and workflows.
• Build extensible options that let project teams customize their environments within a supported platform standard, and reduce manual work in project setup and lifecycle.
• Lead the global license-server infrastructure, define standard approaches for license deployment and administration, and automate license updates, validation and auditing.
• Write robust Python, shell and other automation for CAD infrastructure, including configuration generation, provisioning, monitoring and administration.
• Maintain utilities and infrastructure scripts, integrate CAD infrastructure with Jenkins/CI and service-management workflows where suitable, and improve observability, auditability and maintainability.
• Build dashboards and metrics, monitor compute and license use, and spot capacity, performance and reliability risks.
• Develop ways to find inefficient use of shared engineering resources, and work with infrastructure teams on forward capacity planning.
• Contribute to the supported Linux OS strategy for EDA, coordinate tool compatibility with IT/IS, and support migrations between Linux generations.
• Set clear engineering requirements for infrastructure standards and separate application requirements from operational ownership.
• Maintain architecture and operations documentation, including scripts, configuration, dependencies and recovery procedures.
• Act as escalation point for complex problems, train CAD and IT/IS engineers, set up 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 monitoring, reporting and planning for license availability and utilization.
• Provide EDA expertise for LSF-based compute, work with IT/IS on LSF architecture, provisioning and resource sharing, and support integration between project environments and batch compute.
• Build methods to monitor compute utilization and efficiency, and automate detection of inefficient or problematic workloads.
• Provide engineering-side expertise for Perforce server infrastructure, supporting its architecture, administration, troubleshooting and lifecycle with IT/IS, including availability, storage and backup.
• Build automation and monitoring for Perforce, and keep its operational documentation and procedures current.

Requirements

• Significant experience in EDA/CAD infrastructure engineering within semiconductor development.
• Strong Linux/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 with engineering project and workspace management.
• Understanding of compute, storage and network requirements for EDA environments.
• Experience with EDA licensing and FlexNet-based licensing 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 technical documentation and knowledge transfer.
• 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 and other major semiconductor EDA tool experience.
• Highly desirable: Linux infrastructure and RHEL migration experience.
• Highly desirable: experience supporting geographically distributed engineering environments.

Conditions

Compensation is a competitive salary plus a benefits package; more details will be shared during the hiring process.

The company is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Benefits

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