Senior Staff Engineer, CAE Infrastructure & R&D Software

Please Note: To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period. Advancing the World’s Technology Together Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future. We believe innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We’re dedicated to empowering people to be their true selves. Together, we’re building a better tomorrow for our employees, customers, partners, and communities. 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 and 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 — Cluster architecture design, queue and resource policy definition, job scheduling tuning, utilization-driven performance improvement, and capacity planning 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, or engineering IT within semiconductor design environments 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 Experience deploying and operating remote desktop / user login environments (Exceed TurboX, VNC, X11) Hands-on large-scale Linux system administration experience Working knowledge of license management systems (FlexLM/FlexNet) and the major EDA tool ecosystems (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens) Automation and scripting proficiency in Python, Perl, Tcl, or shell Track record of establishing and rolling out standards and processes across multiple organizations #LI-VL1 What We Offer The pay range below is for all roles at this level across all US locations and functions. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and…