Senior CAD Infrastructure Engineer

Senior CAD Infrastructure Engineer

Roles:

As the Senior CAD Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, deploying and managing a scalable, high-performance CAD infrastructure that supports complex semiconductor design workflows for our various chip design teams.

As a key technical leader of the team, you will collaborate with R&D Functional Design teams, IT, High-Performance Computing (HPC) datacenter operation team, EDA vendors and other relevant cross-functional groups to ensure the CAD environment is optimized for performance, scalability, reliability, and the robust infrastructure solutions meet the diverse chip development needs. You will drive the roadmap for CAD compute environments, implement automation, optimize workflows and methodologies to enhance efficiency and productivity, streamline design processes, and improve time-to-market for our products.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, implement, deploy, and manage CAD infrastructure to support various chip design functional teams.
• Collaborate and work closely with design teams to understand their requirements and challenges, and translate them into efficient CAD solutions.
• Develop and implement automation scripts for workflow optimization, job scheduling, and resource management to enhance design productivity and quality.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of CAD infrastructure to meet project demands.
• Ensure seamless integration of CAD infrastructure with existing systems and processes.
• Provide technical leadership and support to chip design teams, troubleshooting and resolving CAD-related issues.
• Improve, optimize and manage existing job scheduling tool (LSF), environment and infrastructure to support the workflow of the R&D functional design teams.
• Improve, optimize and manage existing EDA tools, environment and infrastructure to support the workflow of the R&D functional design teams.
• Evaluate, integrate, install and manage new EDA tools and technologies to improve scalability, performance, security, and to stay at the forefront of industry advancements.
• Develop and maintain documentation for CAD infrastructure, tools, and processes.
• Provide training and support to design teams on CAD environment and tool usage and best practices.
• Work closely with IT, HPC datacenter operation and other cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of CAD infrastructure for efficient EDA tool execution and LSF operation.
• Work closely with EDA vendors to optimize tool performance and licensing models.
• Continuously monitor and analyze system performance and resource utilization for reliability, and cost-effectiveness - making data-driven recommendations for improvements and infrastructure expansion as needed.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, best practices in CAD infrastructure implementation, deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
• Document system configurations, updates, and procedures for reference, presentation, training and auditing purposes.
• Define and maintain customer satisfaction metrics.
• Review utilization data and identify enhancement opportunities.
• Review, develop, and distribute support metrics to track team performance and customer satisfaction, constantly seeking opportunities for improvement in support processes and practices.
• Lead your team to develop tools and automation that assist in the troubleshooting and resolution of technical issues encountered.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.