Principal EDA & Compute Infra Architect

Renesas Electronics Corp.; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corp. seeks a Principal EDA/CAD Engineer to lead global engineering compute and design-data-management environments. You will blend hands-on CAD work with infrastructure ownership, automation and training, supporting Perforce/IPLM-based workflows across distributed teams.

The role emphasizes scalable solutions for managing semiconductor design environments, strong Linux skills, scripting, and cross-functional collaboration with CAD, IT and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in EDA/CAD engineering, semiconductor design infrastructure or engineering compute environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for engineering compute infrastructure and CAD environments.
• Support Perforce/IPLM integration with EDA tools and engineering environments.
• Develop methodologies for IP creation, versioning, release, reuse and lifecycle management.
• Develop scalable approaches for managing analog and digital design data.
• Define data-management best practices and help engineering projects adopt them.
• Develop and support standardized project and workspace environments.
• Create reusable methodologies for project creation and onboarding.
• Improve consistency between engineering projects while allowing project-specific configuration.
• Develop automation for engineering environment and data-management workflows.
• Create and maintain Python and shell-based utilities.
• Reduce manual project setup and administration through automation.
• Improve the reliability, maintainability and scalability of CAD infrastructure processes.
• Develop methodologies for migrating engineering data from legacy infrastructures.
• Support transitions from existing data-management platforms to Perforce/IPLM-based solutions.
• Assist teams moving projects and data between environments.
• Maintain support for legacy environments during transition.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, user guides and engineering best practices.
• Create and deliver training for engineering compute and design-data-management environments.
• Support onboarding of projects and engineering teams.
• Provide expert escalation support for complex CAD and data-management issues.
• Capture specialist knowledge in maintainable documentation and repeatable processes.
• Contribute to the roadmap for engineering compute and design-data-management infrastructure.
• Evaluate new technologies and methodologies for engineering data management.
• Work across CAD, engineering and IS to establish sustainable ownership boundaries.
• Help move environments toward standardized, scalable and globally supported solutions.

Skills

EDA/CAD engineering

Linux/Unix

Compute environments

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Collaboration across IT/engineering

Project environments

Automation

Tools

Perforce Helix

IPLM

Cadence/Virtuoso

Job description

Renesas Electronics Corp. seeks a Principal EDA/CAD Engineer to lead global engineering compute and design-data-management environments. You will blend hands-on CAD work with infrastructure ownership, automation and training, supporting Perforce/IPLM-based workflows across distributed teams.

The role emphasizes scalable solutions for managing semiconductor design environments, strong Linux skills, scripting, and cross-functional collaboration with CAD, IT and engineering teams.