Senior Staff Engineer, EDA Infra & Compute

Samsung Semiconductor

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 189,000 - 301,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off 4+ weeks

Onsite cafe & gym

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to build and optimize the EDA design environment and large-scale compute infrastructure for the semiconductor design orgs. You will establish company-wide standards for EDA licensing and R&D software, designing shared design environments and infrastructure to drive productivity and cost efficiency.

Location is daily onsite at our San Jose, CA office with alignment to our Flexible Work policy.

Qualifications

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.

Responsibilities

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.