Senior Staff CAD Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Principal EDA/CAD Engineer to provide technical leadership for Renesas’ global engineering compute and CAD infrastructure. The role combines hands-on engineering with architecture and operational responsibility across Linux compute environments, engineering workspaces, project provisioning, LSF integration, EDA license infrastructure, Perforce infrastructure, monitoring and automation. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, CAD and IT/IS teams to develop scalable, reliable and globally consistent environments supporting semiconductor development.   Compute & Engineering Infrastructure • Provide technical leadership for global EDA compute infrastructure. • Develop and support Linux-based engineering environments. • Work with IT/IS on compute, storage, networking and server requirements. • Support interactive and batch compute environments. • Contribute to infrastructure capacity planning and technical roadmaps. • Troubleshoot complex compute and engineering-environment problems. • Develop automation to improve reliability and reduce manual administration. Project & Workspace Infrastructure • Own and evolve the engineering project and workspace architecture. • Develop and maintain project/workspace creation and initialization mechanisms. • Support project configuration infrastructure. • Ensure consistent environment setup globally across projects and sites. • Develop interfaces between project configuration, PDKs, EDA tools and engineering workflows. • Provide extensible mechanisms allowing project teams to customize their environments while maintaining a supported platform standard. • Reduce manual intervention in project setup and project lifecycle management. EDA License Infrastructure • Provide technical leadership for global EDA license-server infrastructure. • Develop standardized approaches for license deployment and administration. • Develop and maintain automation for license updates, validation and auditing. Automation & Tool Development • Develop robust Python, shell and other automation for CAD infrastructure. • Maintain engineering utilities and infrastructure scripts. • Develop automation for configuration generation, provisioning, monitoring and administration. • Integrate CAD infrastructure with Jenkins/CI and service-management workflows where appropriate. • Improve observability, auditability and maintainability of infrastructure services. Monitoring, Metrics & Capacity Planning • Develop dashboards and metrics for engineering infrastructure. • Monitor compute and license utilization. • Identify capacity, performance and reliability risks. • Work with infrastructure teams on forward capacity planning. • Develop mechanisms to identify inefficient use of shared engineering resources. OS & Platform Strategy • Contribute to supported Linux OS strategy for EDA environments. • Coordinate EDA-tool compatibility requirements with IT/IS. • Support migration between Linux platform generations. • Define clear engineering requirements for infrastructure standards. • Help separate engineering application requirements from infrastructure operational ownership. Documentation, Training & Support • Maintain architecture and operational documentation for critical CAD infrastructure. • Document scripts, configuration, dependencies and recovery procedures. • Provide expert escalation for complex infrastructure problems. • Train other CAD engineers and IT/IS teams to reduce dependency on individual experts. • Establish sustainable primary/backup ownership for critical services. • Develop appropriate resilience and failover strategies. • Work with regional CAD teams and IT/IS to standardize license infrastructure globally. • Support license