Senior Staff Engineer, EDA & HPC Infrastructure

Conductor; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4+ weeks of paid time off

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to build and optimize the EDA design environment and large-scale compute infrastructure. You will standardize company-wide EDA licensing and RD software, and establish shared design environments used across multiple design organizations to boost productivity and reduce costs.

You’ll lead design environment tiering, license management, and capacity planning while guiding a team through the EDA tool ecosystem to enable scalable engineering across

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead vendor relationship management, contract negotiations and renewals; determine license quantities through utilization monitoring and demand forecasting; optimize cost by identifying idle licenses; own architecture and operation of license servers.
• Define the roadmap and prioritize requirements from design organizations.
• Design cluster architecture, define queue and resource policies, tune job scheduling, drive utilization-based performance improvements, and plan capacity.
• Build, operate, and establish the user support model for the login environment (Exceed TurboX, ETX).
• Own governance, upgrades, and migrations for Jira, Confluence within Engineering collaboration and DevOps platforms.
• Drive consolidation and standardization of the Enterprise R&D software portfolio.

Skills

CAD/CAE

EDA infra

HPC design infra

License management

Job scheduling

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

IBM LSF

SLURM

Grid Engine

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to build and optimize the EDA design environment and large-scale compute infrastructure. You will standardize company-wide EDA licensing and RD software, and establish shared design environments used across multiple design organizations to boost productivity and reduce costs.

You’ll lead design environment tiering, license management, and capacity planning while guiding a team through the EDA tool ecosystem to enable scalable engineering across