Principal CAD Infrastructure Architect - Global EDA

Renesas; 's-Hertogenbosch; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas is seeking a Principal EDA/CAD Engineer to lead global engineering compute and CAD infrastructure. You will shape project/workspace environments, license infrastructure, and automation, collaborating with CAD, engineering and IT/IS teams worldwide.

You will drive capacity planning, monitoring and scalable solutions across LSF, Perforce and EDA tools, ensuring consistent, production‑ready environments for semiconductor development.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in EDA/CAD infrastructure engineering within semiconductor development.
• Strong scripting and automation skills, preferably Python and shell.
• Experience with LSF or comparable distributed compute environments.
• Experience with enterprise version‑control/data‑management infrastructure such as Perforce Helix and IPLM
• Experience with engineering project/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 developing production‑quality engineering automation.
• Ability to work across global engineering, CAD and IT/IS organizations.
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge‑transfer skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for global EDA compute infrastructure.
• Develop and support Linux-based engineering environments.
• Work with IT/IS on compute, storage, networking and server requirements.
• Support interactive and batch compute environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure capacity planning and technical roadmaps.
• Troubleshoot complex compute and engineering‑environment problems.
• Develop automation to improve reliability and reduce manual administration.
• Own and evolve the engineering project and workspace architecture.
• Develop and maintain project/workspace creation and initialization mechanisms.
• Support project configuration infrastructure.
• Ensure consistent environment setup globally across projects and sites.
• Develop interfaces between project configuration, PDKs, EDA tools and engineering workflows.
• Provide extensible mechanisms allowing project teams to customize their environments while maintaining a supported platform standard.
• Reduce manual intervention in project setup and project lifecycle management.
• Provide technical leadership for global EDA license‑server infrastructure.
• Develop standardized approaches for license deployment and administration.
• Develop and maintain automation for license updates, validation and auditing.
• Develop robust Python, shell and other automation for CAD infrastructure.
• Maintain engineering utilities and infrastructure scripts.
• Develop automation for configuration generation, provisioning, monitoring and administration.
• Integrate CAD infrastructure with Jenkins/CI and service‑management workflows where appropriate.
• Improve observability, auditability and maintainability of infrastructure services.
• Develop dashboards and metrics for engineering infrastructure.
• Monitor compute and license utilization.
• Identify capacity, performance and reliability risks.
• Work with infrastructure teams on forward capacity planning.
• Develop mechanisms to identify inefficient use of shared engineering resources.
• Contribute to supported Linux OS strategy for EDA environments.
• Coordinate EDA‑tool compatibility requirements with IT/IS.
• Support migration between Linux platform generations.
• Define clear engineering requirements for infrastructure standards.
• Help separate engineering application requirements from infrastructure operational ownership.
• Maintain architecture and operational documentation for critical CAD infrastructure.
• Document scripts, configuration, dependencies and recovery procedures.
• Provide expert escalation for complex infrastructure problems.
• Train other CAD engineers and IT/IS teams to reduce dependency on individual experts.
• Develop appropriate resilience and failover strategies.
• Work with regional CAD teams and IT/IS to standardize license infrastructure globally.
• Support license‑capacity monitoring and planning.
• Develop monitoring and reporting for license availability and utilization.
• Provide EDA expertise for LSF‑based compute environments.
• Work with IT/IS on LSF architecture, provisioning and resource sharing.
• Develop methods for monitoring compute utilization and efficiency.
• Support integration between project environments and batch compute.
• Identify and automate detection of inefficient or problematic workloads.
• Contribute to compute capacity planning.
• Provide engineering‑side technical expertise for Perforce server infrastructure and operations.
• Support Perforce architecture used by semiconductor engineering environments.
• Work with IT/IS on server lifecycle, availability, storage and backup.
• Support administration and troubleshooting of engineering Perforce environments.
• Develop automation and monitoring around Perforce infrastructure.
• Maintain appropriate operational documentation and procedures.

Skills

EDA/CAD infra

Scripting (Python)

LSF

Perforce/IPLMS

Project/workspace management

Compute/storage/network

FlexNet licensing

Troubleshooting

Automation development

Global collaboration

Documentation

Job description

Renesas is seeking a Principal EDA/CAD Engineer to lead global engineering compute and CAD infrastructure. You will shape project/workspace environments, license infrastructure, and automation, collaborating with CAD, engineering and IT/IS teams worldwide.

You will drive capacity planning, monitoring and scalable solutions across LSF, Perforce and EDA tools, ensuring consistent, production‑ready environments for semiconductor development.