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CAD Engineer/Staff CAD Engineer

ZipRecruiter, San Jose

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

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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.

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Key Responsibilities:

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  • Manage the EDA infrastructure and create/develop system monitors to support custom analog-mixed signal and digital design projects
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  • Implement best-in-class CAD license and hardware resource monitors.
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  • Develop benchmark and QA systems to qualify flows and to improve datacenter hardware specifications.
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  • Enhance EDA tool performance through optimization of compute (CPU, GPU) and storage architectures.
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  • Develop strategies for using load balancing and methodologies for bursting peak workloads into private cloud datacenters.
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  • Actively participate in CAD infrastructure planning with IT to improve productivity.
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  • Support tool bugs and issues, working closely with world-wide design teams and EDA vendors.
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Basic Qualifications:

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  • B.S. or M.S. in electrical/computer engineering or related engineering disciplines. Relevant work experience in industry commensurate to the title.
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  • Expert level understanding of Linux system and tools, as well as tcl/csh/bash scripting.
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  • Expertise in Python and Python/Qt GUI programming.
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  • High-level communication and organizational/execution skills to effectively drive CAD projects and priorities with Credo design teams and design tool vendors.
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  • 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.
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Skills:

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