Velaura AI
CAD & Engineering Infrastructure Lead
$200K–$300K
Santa Clara, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- Experience across multiple successful SoC programs; no years specified.
About the job
Build and operate the compute, EDA, RTL-to-GDS release, CI/CD, and AI-assisted engineering platform supporting Velaura’s silicon development teams.
What you'll do
- Define and drive engineering infrastructure requirements for compute, storage, scheduling, security, backup, disaster recovery, and cloud.
- Lead design-flow CI/CD, release qualification, regression support, and deployment of multi-vendor EDA tools.
- Drive AI adoption and operate AI engineering infrastructure, including model access, agentic tools, compute, and data pipelines.
What they ask for
- Deep understanding of the ASIC development lifecycle and experience owning CAD and infrastructure across multiple successful SoC programs.
- Hands-on experience setting up and maintaining integrated RTL-to-GDS flows, including tool and version management, collateral integration, and release qualification.
- Strong understanding of engineering compute infrastructure, including scheduling, storage, networking, cloud, and license management at scale.
- Experience with multi-vendor EDA ecosystems, CI/CD and version control, high-volume regression workloads, scripting, and deploying AI-assisted engineering tools.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling infrastructure in an early-stage semiconductor company or with advanced technology nodes.
- Experience with agentic AI systems, LLM-based tooling, AI-native design automation, chiplet designs, or advanced packaging.
Pay
USD 200,000–300,000 (per-year-salary) base salary
Tools
LSF, Slurm, Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDA, Python, Tcl, Bash
AI focus
Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and operate the platform behind them, including model access, agentic tooling, compute, and data pipelines; measure productivity impact and protect proprietary design data.
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