EDA & CAD Manager - San Jose, United States
Originally posted 28 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced EDA & CAD Manager to build and manage a robust design environment that supports multiple disciplines of IC designers across Lumilens. This role will own critical EDA methodology, CAD flows, design infrastructure, tool administration, and automation that enable faster, more reliable silicon development.
What you'll do
- Support IC design and IT leadership with EDA tool upgrades, infrastructure improvements, and methodology enhancements.
- Manage repositories for PDKs, internal and external IP, design data, and tools from multiple vendors.
- Advise design and IT leadership on future planning, EDA methodology improvements, design environment scalability, and infrastructure investments.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain custom tools, scripts, automation, and plug-ins that improve designer productivity.
- Support CAD flows integrating tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Pegasus, Genus, Innovus, Xcelium, Synopsys IC compiler, Siemens EDA, Calibre.
- Maintain and troubleshoot EDA infrastructure, including Linux and Unix environments, compute-farm integration, environment modules, tool-version management, license servers.
What you'll need
- Deep understanding of Cadence/Synopsys tool flows, including analog and mixed-signal design tools such as Virtuoso, AMS, and Spectre.
- Hands-on experience with layout and signoff tools such as PVS, Pegasus, and Calibre, as well as synthesis, APR, and physical design tools such as Genus, Innovus and Fusion Compiler.
- Experience supporting multiple PDKs simultaneously, with familiarity with Intel, TSMC and GlobalFoundries.
- Strong experience with revision control, repository administration, and methodology recommendations using systems such as Perforce, VersIC, Git.
- Experience managing internal and external IP, design data, PDK releases, and tool environments across multiple vendors and engineering teams.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Perl, Tcl, Bash/Shell, and SKILL, including automation of EDA flows, tool setup, regression runs, log parsing, environment configuration, and design-data processing.
- Experience administering and troubleshooting FlexNet/FlexLM license environments, including license-server configuration, lmstat/lmutil diagnostics, feature availability, checkout failures, queueing, utilization monitoring, and vendor-daemon issues.
- Strong Linux and Unix troubleshooting skills, including LSF, Slurm, or Grid Engine compute-farm integration, environment modules, tool-version management, and debugging interactions between EDA tools, compute infrastructure, and license servers.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting remote computing environments such as ETX.
- Experience supporting engineering teams across multiple international locations.
- Some degree of systems administration ability across Linux, storage, compute, and engineering infrastructure environments.
- Experience with build systems such as Make, GNU Make, CMake, and custom Makefile-based flows, including build dependencies, environment setup, and reproducible EDA/CAD workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD and regression infrastructure such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions, including automated regression, validation, build, and deployment pipelines for EDA tools and design flows.
Skills: EDA & CAD Manager, EDA methodology, CAD flows, tool administration, Cadence/Synopsys tool flows
This role has been open 12 days — well below the 79-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
692
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$195k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lumilens | All employers we track in this specialty (692 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 692 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 3 | 1473 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 12 d | 79 d (−67 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: EDA & CAD Manager, EDA methodology, CAD flows, tool administration, Cadence/Synopsys tool flows
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 161 open roles · median 165 d
- Synopsys · 59 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 42 open roles · median 90 d
- Qualcomm · 42 open roles · median 61 d
- NVIDIA · 41 open roles · median 74 d
- GlobalFoundries · 31 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 692 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.