EDA Computing / HPC Infrastructure MTS - Austin, Texas, United States of America
$104,000 - $175,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 July 2026 by the employer.
Technical ownership of hybrid EDA compute clusters and IBM LSF batch scheduling for semiconductor tapeout workloads.
About the role
Provide technical ownership for semiconductor design, verification, and tapeout computing environments. This hands-on role supports compute, storage, scheduling, and EDA application services across on-premises infrastructure and AWS-based environments.
What you'll do
- Provide senior-level support for EDA compute clusters used for simulation, physical verification, OPC, lithography, signoff, and tapeout workloads. - Operate, optimize, and troubleshoot IBM LSF and other batch scheduling environments for high-throughput engineering workloads. - Analyze job failures, hung jobs, queue bottlenecks, license constraints, compute node issues, and workload performance problems. - Provide technical ownership for hybrid EDA HPC platforms across on-premises infrastructure and AWS-based compute environments. - Support and optimize EDA storage services, including NFS, NetApp ONTAP, AWS FSx, S3, and related high-performance file services. - Design, develop, and maintain automation tools to improve EDA operations, observability, reliability, and support efficiency.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience. - Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience for MTS, or 10+ years of relevant experience for Senior MTS, in EDA computing, HPC, Linux infrastructure, storage, cloud, or production engineering support. - Strong experience supporting EDA computing, HPC, or large-scale Linux production environments. - Hands-on experience with batch schedulers, preferably IBM LSF. - Strong Linux system administration skills on RHEL-based platforms and Bash scripting capability. - Ability to analyze complex incidents, identify root causes, and implement sustainable technical solutions.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field. - Experience supporting semiconductor design and tapeout flows, including Calibre, ASML Brion, Cadence, Synopsys, or similar EDA applications. - AWS or other cloud platform experience for HPC or engineering workloads. - NetApp ONTAP, NFS, FSx, S3, or high-performance file storage experience. - Python automation experience. - Experience with monitoring, logging, dashboarding, capacity reporting, and operational analytics tools.
Skills: EDA compute clusters, IBM LSF, Linux infrastructure, AWS cloud, high-performance storage
This role has been open 87 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
968
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | GlobalFoundries | All employers we track in this specialty (968 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 968 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 45 | 6166 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 66 d | 52 d (+14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: EDA compute clusters, IBM LSF, Linux infrastructure, AWS cloud, high-performance storage
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 278 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 20 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 94 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 968 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.