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CAD Engineer/Staff CAD Engineer

ZipRecruiter, San Jose, California, United States, 95199

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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSalary: $165,000 to $175,000

Role: In your role as a Staff CAD Engineer (Infrastructure), you will support and improve CAD design tool usage and flows. Projects will have high visibility with a world-wide team of development engineers. This position emphasizes EDA compute infrastructure. You will play a critical role in improving the engineering compute infrastructure for efficiency and scalability. Key Responsibilities: Manage the EDA infrastructure and create/develop system monitors to support custom analog-mixed signal and digital design projects

Implement best-in-class CAD license and hardware resource monitors.

Develop benchmark and QA systems to qualify flows and to improve datacenter hardware specifications.

Enhance EDA tool performance through optimization of compute (CPU, GPU) and storage architectures. Develop strategies for using load balancing and methodologies for bursting peak workloads into private cloud datacenters. Actively participate in CAD infrastructure planning with IT to improve productivity.

Support tool bugs and issues, working closely with world-wide design teams and EDA vendors.

Basic Qualifications: B.S. or M.S. in

electrical/computer

engineering or related engineering disciplines. Relevant work experience in industry commensurate to the title. Expert level understanding of Linux system and tools, as well as tcl/csh/bash scripting. Expertise in Python and Python/Qt GUI programming. High-level communication and

organizational/execution

skills to effectively drive CAD projects and priorities with Credo design teams and design tool vendors. Expertise in Cadence, Siemens, and/or Synopsys EDA tool solutions. Good technical understanding of EDA design flows in one or more of the following areas RC extraction, physical verification, analog simulators (especially for high-frequency RF designs), packaging tools and SI/PI analysis, RTL

design/optimization/verification,

SOC physical design.

Skills: Experience in administering load balancing systems like LSF and SGE is a big plus.

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