Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - EDA/VLSI Platform

erialization layers bridging Python and C++ components

• Streaming results from distributed solver instances

Job Orchestration & Workflow

• Task distribution architecture with fault-tolerant scheduling for long-running simulations

• Resource management and load balancing across compute clusters

• Monitoring and observability for distributed workflows

• Optimization of task granularity and dependency management

Visualization & Analytics

• Scalable visualization for multi-dimensional TB-scale simulation results

• Interactive data exploration and optimization techniques (downsampling, LOD, progressive rendering)

Required Expertise

Distributed Systems

• 5+ years building production distributed systems with Python

• Deep experience with Dask Distributed or similar frameworks (Spark, Ray, Celery)

• Strong grasp of distributed computing patterns, data locality, and fault tolerance

Data Engineering

• Expertise in high-performance I/O (HDF5, Parquet, Arrow, columnar formats)

• Data partitioning strategies, memory-mapped files, zero-copy techniques, streaming patterns

• Python/C++ interop (pybind11, Cython, ctypes)

Big Data Visualization

• Experience with large-scale scientific/engineering visualization systems

Nice to Have

• Background in EDA, VLSI, semiconductor design, or computational engineering

• HPC experience with job schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF)

• GPU acceleration knowledge

• Familiarity with modern languages, tools (Go, Plotly, Bokeh, Holoviews, Datashader)

• Open-source distributed computing contributions

Why Join Us

We bring strong expertise in numerical methods and circuit analysis algorithms, well-defined solver interfaces, and a clear technical vision. You'll build greenfield distributed infrastructure with modern tools, designing the scalable foundation that makes advanced analysis capabilities accessible to chip design engineers.

Ideal Candidate

You're a systems thinker excited about data pipeline architecture and production-scale distributed systems. You understand orchestrating heterogeneous workloads and designing elegant abstractions for distributed computing. You prioritize observability, fault tolerance, and user experience alongside performance.

No circuit simulation expertise needed-that's our strength. We need your expertise building scalable, reliable infrastructure.

The annual salary range for California is $154,000 to $286,000. 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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