CAD Infrastructure Engineer
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Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Rambus a premier chip and silicon IP provider is seeking to hire an exceptional CAD Infrastructure Engineer to join our Central CAD Team. Selected candidates will be joining some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world to develop products that make data faster and safer.
As a CAD Infrastructure Engineer the candidate will be reporting to the Director of this role the candidate will be working on CAD tool flow and methodology development and support for a world-wide design team working on advanced process technology nodes. The CAD team is spread globally across the US and India and supports EDA (electronic design automation) software EDA infrastructure design flows/methodologies and design automation for world-wide design teams working on cutting edge product chips designs for memory interface chips interconnect chips and silicon IP designs.
Rambus offers a flexible work environment embracing a hybrid approach for the majority of our office-based roles. We encourage employees to spend an average of at least three days per week working onsite allowing for two days of remote work.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of a computer-aided design (CAD) team that architects develops and delivers software tools and workflows that are critical to Rambuss advanced chip design and verification.
- Own the development support and continuous improvement of CAD infrastructure in a global environment with multiple chip design teams and heavily shared computing resources.
- Design configure and optimize LSF queues and policies to maximize chip design job throughput minimize turnaround time (TAT) and improve overall efficiency of shared compute and EDA license resources leveraging advanced scheduling capabilities such as fairshare preemption and prioritization.
- Drive and implement automation around LSF and EDA infrastructure to provide clear visibility into utilization of key resources (compute memory licenses) including demand-vs-supply gaps bottlenecks and efficiency trends.
- Define implement and maintain CAD infrastructure health monitoring and dashboards to proactively detect diagnose and prevent performance capacity or reliability issues before they impact design teams.
- Collaborate closely with IT and infrastructure partners to define requirements influence architecture decisions and recommend compute resource configurations that best support LSF workloads and EDA usage patterns.
- Provide backup and escalation support for compute cluster operations including LSF host group and queue management upgrades configuration changes and overall resource governance.
- Identify and drive cross-team workflow improvements that measurably improve design productivity predictability and tool availability.
Qualifications
- BSEE or equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related field with 5 years of relevant industry experience in CAD EDA infrastructure or engineering workflow automation.
- Strong handson software development and automation experience with proficiency in Python (preferred) and experience with one or more of the following: Perl Tcl CShell Makefile and/or C. Demonstrated ability to develop robust maintainable and productionquality utilities and infrastructurelevel automation.
- Working knowledge of semiconductor design and verification workflows with practical exposure to electronic design automation (EDA) tools from vendors such as Synopsys Cadence and Siemens gained through industry experience or advanced academic project work.
- Proven ability to quickly understand complex CAD workflows and apply software and systems expertise to optimize performance scalability and reliability in shared compute and EDA environments.
About Rambus
Rambus is a global company that makes industry-leading memory interface chips and Silicon IP to advance data center connectivity and solve the bottleneck between memory and processing. With over 30 years of semiconductor experience we are a leading provider of high-performance products and innovations that maximize the bandwidth capacity and security for AI and other data-intensive workloads. Our world-class team is the foundation of our company and our innovative spirit drives us to develop thecutting-edgeproducts and technologies essential for tomorrows systems.
Rambus offers a competitive compensation packageincludingbase salary bonus equity matching 401(k) employee stock purchase plan comprehensive medical and dental benefits time-off program and gym membership.
TheUSsalary range for thisfull-timeposition is $126500to $234900.Our salary ranges aredeterminedby roleleveland location. The successful candidates starting pay will bedeterminedbased on job-related skills experience qualifications worklocationand market conditions.
At Rambus we are committed to fostering a workplace where every individual is respected supported and empowered to succeed. We value a range of perspectives and experiences that contribute to innovation and collaboration. Our goal is to ensure that all team members haveequitableaccess to opportunities resources and a sense of belonging. We believe that a culture of fairness and inclusion helps us all do ourbest work.
Rambus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Rambus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veteransduringour job application procedures. If yourequireassistanceoran accommodationdue to a disabilityplease feel free to inform us in your application.
Rambus does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitmentagenciesor fee-based recruitment services.
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About Company
Dedicated to making data faster and safer, Rambus creates innovative hardware and services that drive technology advancements to data centers, IoT, AI & more!
