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# Senior Staff Engineer, HPC & EDA Design Infrastructure

- **Company:** Samsung
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $189,000.0 - $301,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, Computer Engineering, DevOps, Job Scheduling, Information Technology, Slurm, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87989752/1

## About the Role

* BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
 * 15+ years in CAD/CAE, EDA infrastructure, design infrastructure, or HPC for semiconductor design
 * 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

## Description

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

What You'll 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, 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- Design cluster architecture, define queue and resource policies, tune job scheduling, drive utilization-based performance improvements, and plan capacity.
 * 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, At Samsung Semiconductor, we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the recruitment process to enhance efficiency. However, AI is used as a support tool, not a final decision-maker. All hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team and hiring managers to ensure every candidate is evaluated fairly and holistically.


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