Cadence · 19 hours ago
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - EDA/VLSI Platform
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$154K/yr - $286K/yr
5+ years expCadence is a technology company focused on building innovative tools for circuit design. They are seeking an experienced distributed systems engineer to design scalable data processing infrastructure for handling large circuit designs across distributed computing resources.
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Responsibilities
Architect and develop the core distributed infrastructure for a Python-based platform orchestrating high-performance C++ solvers, focusing on:
Efficient ingestion pipelines for large-scale netlists and simulation data
High-performance I/O for multi-TB circuit databases
Serialization/deserialization layers bridging Python and C++ components
Streaming results from distributed solver instances
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
Scalable visualization for multi-dimensional TB-scale simulation results
Interactive data exploration and optimization techniques (downsampling, LOD, progressive rendering)
Qualification
Required
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
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)
Experience with large-scale scientific/engineering visualization systems
Preferred
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
Benefits
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
Company
Cadence
Cadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application of computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design of silicon to systems.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Anirudh Devgan
President and CEO
Paul Cunningham
Senior Vice President and General Manager
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