Senior CAD/EDA Infrastructure Engineer for HPC & Cloud

Blue Origin; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin in Cupertino, CA is seeking a CAD Engineer focused on compute and design infrastructure to support the Custom ASIC Silicon team. You will enable a high-performance design environment for semiconductor development and collaborate with IT to optimize on-premise and cloud-based workflows.

The role emphasizes building and maintaining compute infrastructure, licensing, CI/CD for hardware design, and capacity planning to support large-scale simulations and verifications.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years in CAD/EDA infrastructure or semiconductor design environments.
• Experience managing compute infrastructure for semiconductor or ASIC design teams.
• Familiarity with EDA license server management (FlexLM/FlexNet).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, shell, Perl, or Tcl).
• Experience with version control systems (Git, Perforce) in a hardware design context.
• Knowledge of Linux-based HPC environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain compute infrastructure supporting CAS design and verification activities.
• Configure and manage EDA tool environments and license servers for the CAS engineering team.
• Support deployment of HPC clusters and storage systems for large-scale simulation and verification workloads.
• Implement CI systems for design validation within the CAS flow.
• Monitor compute resource utilization and provide capacity planning recommendations.
• Manage EDA tool access, licensing, and version control across the CAS team.
• Collaborate with IT to optimize on-premise and cloud-based design environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues impacting design team productivity.
• Develop and document infrastructure best practices and SOPs for the CAS organization.

Skills

CAD/EDA infra

Scripting

Version control

Linux HPC

EDA license servers

Cloud/CI/CD

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

FlexLM/FlexNet

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Blue Origin in Cupertino, CA is seeking a CAD Engineer focused on compute and design infrastructure to support the Custom ASIC Silicon team. You will enable a high-performance design environment for semiconductor development and collaborate with IT to optimize on-premise and cloud-based workflows.

The role emphasizes building and maintaining compute infrastructure, licensing, CI/CD for hardware design, and capacity planning to support large-scale simulations and verifications.