Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - EDA/VLSI Platform
Cadence · San Francisco Bay Area
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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. About the Role
We're building a next-generation distributed transistor-level electromigration and IR drop analysis tool. Our team has strong expertise in numerical solvers and circuit simulation algorithms. We need an experienced distributed systems engineer to design the scalable data processing infrastructure for handling massive circuit designs across distributed computing resources.
What You'll Build Architect and develop the core distributed infrastructure for a Python-based platform orchestrating high-performance C++ solvers, focusing on:
Data Pipeline & I/O Management 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
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
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