Senior Staff Engineer, CAE Infrastructure & R&D Software

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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 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.

Samsung DSA has launched a new AI initiative to build the foundational capabilities for practical agentic AI systems. The AI Innovation team is the driving force behind this vision leading innovation at the intersection of machine learning and system engineering to develop and operate our next-generation Agentic AI framework. We aim to enable LLMs to autonomously plan retrieve information coordinate with tools and execute multi-step workflows across our internal knowledge ecosystem. We are actively seeking talented Machine Learning Engineers specializing in building next-generation AI/ML solutions.

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose CA office / U.S. headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy

What Youll 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 and 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 Cluster architecture design queue and resource policy definition job scheduling tuning utilization-driven performance improvement and capacity planning
• 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
• Enterprise R&D software portfolio management Drive consolidation and standardization

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or a related field
• 15 years in CAD/CAE EDA infrastructure or engineering IT within semiconductor design environments
• Experience building and operating EDA design environments and providing technical support to design organizations
• Experience with EDA license contract management license server operations and utilization-based capacity optimization
• Experience building and operating large-scale compute farms with IBM LSF (or SLURM Grid Engine) and tuning job scheduling
• Experience deploying and operating remote desktop / user login environments (Exceed TurboX VNC X11)
• Hands-on large-scale Linux system administration experience
• Working knowledge of license management systems (FlexLM/FlexNet) and the major EDA tool ecosystems (Cadence Synopsys Siemens)
• Automation and scripting proficiency in Python Perl Tcl or shell
• Track record of establishing and rolling out standards and processes across multiple organizations

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