Engineer
Posted 7 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Senior Staff Engineer, HPC & EDA Design Infrastructure”
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- Expected experience
- 15+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
No salary listed for this role.
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Advancing the World’s Technology Together
Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future.
We believe innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We’re dedicated to empowering people to be their true selves. Together, we’re building a better tomorrow for our employees, customers, partners, and communities.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to build and optimize the EDA design environment and large-scale compute infrastructure that supports our semiconductor design organizations, and to establish company-wide standards and processes for EDA licensing and R&D software. In this role, you will design and standardize the shared design environments and infrastructure used across multiple design organizations, driving engineering productivity and cost efficiency at scale.
Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office / U.S. headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy
What You’ll Do
- 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, 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 — Design cluster architecture, define queue and resource policies, tune job scheduling, drive utilization-based performance improvements, and plan capacity.
- 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