Senior Systems Engineer (HPC/Server Farm)

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is seeking a HPC Server Farm Engineer to join our team to support, manage, and improve the DevOps environment. The candidate should have hands-on experience with cloud solutions and proven expertise in working directly with R&D software development teams to develop solutions to optimize their working environment collaboratively.

Cadence has a 30-year history of applying leading-edge optimization and analysis algorithms to highly complex problems in semiconductor and electronic design, verification, and analysis.

Each day with Cadence offers exciting opportunities to create a better, more connected world. We are leading the charge to solve technology’s toughest challenges. Working at Cadence means working alongside the industry’s brightest people and innovating for the biggest, most innovative companies around the globe.

Location: San Jose, CA (on-site position)

Responsibilities

• Supporting multiple geological locations to serve user communities across North America, Europe, and Asia sites.

• Focusing on improving R&D productivity and committing to customer success.

• Build, deploy, and optimize HPC compute clusters using LSF or Slurm.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development, testing, and production environments

• Operating, managing, and enhancing the internal compute farm and associated cloud (Azure).

• Maintaining, enhancing, monitoring, reporting, and improving its efficiency.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical experience architecting, managing, and improving HPC environments running both Windows and Linux.

• 3+ years working in a global group, coordinating support, strategies, projects, and operations across multiple geographies in a team-oriented approach

• Solid understanding and proven operational experience with DevSecOps and best practices

• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipeline in cloud (Azure preferred)

• Strong Linux administration skills and problem-solving skills

• Experience working directly with R&D software development teams to collaboratively develop solutions to optimize their working environment

• Experience in HPC using LSF or Slurm is preferred.

• Strong process focus shown through documentation, change management, incident management and problem-resolution activities

Education: BS / MS in computer science or related field

The annual salary range for California is $143,500 to $266,500. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

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