Senior Staff CAD Engineer

Description

The company is an embedded semiconductor solution provider with over 21,000 engineers in more than 30 countries, building technology for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets.

This principal-level EDA/CAD role leads technical direction for the company's worldwide compute and CAD infrastructure, combining hands-on engineering with architecture and day-to-day operational ownership.

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

You will work with engineering, CAD and IT/IS teams to build scalable, reliable environments that behave the same way across sites and support semiconductor development.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for global EDA compute, covering interactive and batch environments, and build and support Linux-based engineering setups.
• Work with IT/IS on compute, storage, networking and server needs, and help plan capacity and technical roadmaps.
• Own the engineering project and workspace architecture: build and maintain creation and initialization mechanisms, support project configuration, and connect configuration, PDKs, EDA tools and workflows.
• Give project teams extensible ways to customize their environments while keeping a supported platform standard, and reduce manual steps across the project lifecycle.
• Lead global EDA license-server infrastructure, set standard approaches for deployment and administration, and build automation for updates, validation, auditing, monitoring and utilization reporting.
• Write and maintain Python, shell and other automation and utilities for provisioning, configuration generation, monitoring and administration, and integrate with Jenkins/CI and service-management workflows where suitable.
• Improve observability, auditability and maintainability of infrastructure services.
• Build dashboards and metrics, track compute and license use, identify capacity, performance and reliability risks, and find inefficient use of shared resources.
• Shape the supported Linux OS strategy for EDA, coordinate tool compatibility with IT/IS, support migration between Linux generations, and separate application requirements from infrastructure ownership.
• Provide EDA expertise for LSF environments: work with IT/IS on architecture, provisioning and resource sharing, monitor efficiency, link project environments to batch compute, and automate detection of problematic workloads.
• Provide engineering-side expertise for Perforce server infrastructure, supporting architecture, administration, troubleshooting, lifecycle, availability, storage and backup with IT/IS, and build related automation, monitoring and procedures.
• Document architecture, operations, scripts, dependencies and recovery steps, handle complex escalations, train CAD and IT/IS staff, set primary and backup ownership, design resilience and failover, and standardize license infrastructure with regional CAD teams.

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 managing engineering projects and workspaces.
• Understanding of compute, storage and network needs 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 and other major semiconductor EDA tool experience.
• Highly desirable: Linux infrastructure and RHEL migration experience.
• Highly desirable: experience supporting geographically distributed engineering environments.

Conditions

The employer is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Benefits

• A competitive benefits package is offered alongside salary, and details are shared during the hiring process.