DevOps Engineer — Semiconductor EDA Tools & Automation

Job Title

DevOps Engineer — Semiconductor EDA Tools & Automation

Role Summary

Responsible for architecting, automating, and operating secure, high-performance environments for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads to support semiconductor design and manufacturing.

Collaborate with EDA tool vendors, PDK teams, R&D, IT, and security to deliver scalable DevOps solutions for on-premises and cloud/hybrid infrastructure.

Experience Level

Mid-level — approximately 3+ years of relevant hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include design, automation, and operational support of EDA environments and related DevOps pipelines.

• Design, deploy, and automate EDA tools (e.g., Cadence PSPICE, Artisan, Allegro) on-premises and in cloud/hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain high-performance infrastructure for simulation and verification using LSF or Slurm job schedulers.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for provisioning, configuration, and application updates.
• Manage licensing, job scheduling, compute, storage, and network resources to optimize EDA workloads.
• Implement security and compliance controls for sensitive design data in collaboration with security teams.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune EDA workloads and automation; provide technical guidance to engineers and researchers.

Requirements

Essential qualifications and skills required for the role.

• U.S. citizenship required; eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance (active and transferable Secret clearance highly preferred).
• 3+ years hands-on experience automating and deploying semiconductor EDA tools in enterprise environments.
• Practical experience with DevOps tooling and automation scripting (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Experience with job schedulers for HPC workloads (LSF or Slurm).
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong Linux administration skills and familiarity with network and storage considerations for high-throughput workloads.
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience managing EDA license servers and supporting design/verification workloads at scale.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure) and familiarity with regulatory data-security standards.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field was requested.

About the Company

Company: Texas Instruments

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, USA

Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded processing chips for various markets including industrial, automotive, and personal electronics. The company's innovations aim to make electronics more affordable and reliable, fostering advancements in technology through each generation of semiconductors.