Senior Staff Engineer, HPC & EDA Design Infrastructure

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to build and optimize the EDA design environment and large-scale compute infrastructure that supports our semiconductor design organizations, and to establish company-wide standards and processes for EDA licensing and R&D software. In this role, you will design and standardize the shared design environments and infrastructure used across multiple design organizations, driving engineering productivity and cost efficiency at scale.

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office / U.S. headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy

What You’ll Do

• EDA design standards and environment enablement — Define standard processes and guidelines for design flow onboarding, tool qualification, and version control; set up, deploy, operate, and provide technical support for the EDA tool environments used by design organizations
• EDA license contracts, management, and capacity optimization — Lead vendor relationship management, contract negotiations and renewals; determine appropriate license quantities through utilization monitoring and demand forecasting; optimize cost by identifying and reallocating idle licenses; own the architecture and operation of license servers
• EDA design environment and infrastructure roadmap — Define the roadmap and prioritize requirements from design organizations
• LSF compute farm buildout and optimization — Design cluster architecture, define queue and resource policies, tune job scheduling, drive utilization-based performance improvements, and plan capacity
• User login environment (Exceed TurboX, ETX) — Build, operate, and establish the user support model
• Engineering collaboration and DevOps platforms (Jira, Confluence) — Own governance, upgrades, and migrations
• Enterprise R&D software portfolio management — Drive consolidation and standardization

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 15+ years in CAD/CAE, EDA infrastructure, design infrastructure, or HPC for semiconductor design
• Experience building and operating EDA design environments and providing technical support to design organizations
• Experience with EDA license contract management, license server operations, and utilization-based capacity optimization
• Experience building and operating large-scale compute farms with IBM LSF (or SLURM, Grid Engine) and tuning job scheduling

Benefits

• Incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance
• Medical/Dental/Vision/401k
• Charitable giving match and frequent community involvement opportunities
• 4+ weeks of paid time off a year, plus holidays and sick leave
• Stipend for fertility care or adoption, medical travel support, and virtual vet care
• On-demand apps and free confidential therapy sessions
• Onsite Café and gym, plus virtual classes
• Flexible environment to support work-life balance

Pay

Base Pay Range: $189,000—$301,000 USD