Senior Staff Engineer - EDA Infrastructure & Compute

Samsung Semiconductor

United States

On-site

USD 189,000 - 301,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to design and standardize the EDA design environments and large-scale compute infrastructure across our semiconductor design teams. You will establish company-wide standards for EDA licensing and R&D software, and drive efficiency at scale.

You will architect and operate shared environments, oversee license contracts and server operations, and lead compute farm optimization.

Qualifications

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

Define EDA design environment standards and enablement, onboarding, tool qualification, version control, and support for design organizations.
Lead license contracts, management, and capacity optimization; monitor utilization and forecast demand to reduce costs.
Define roadmaps for EDA design environments and infrastructure aligned with design needs.
Build and optimize LSF compute farms including cluster architecture, queues, resource policies, and scheduling.
Build, operate, and support user login environments (Exceed TurboX, VNC, X11).
Govern and migrate DevOps platforms (Jira, Confluence) across teams.
Drive portfolio management for Enterprise R&D software to consolidate and standardize tools.