Staff EDA Licensing – Infrastructure Engineer

Marvell Technology

CAD engineer leading EDA license infrastructure at Marvell's semiconductor solutions team. Ensuring high availability, driving automation, and optimizing EDA license operations across global teams.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $108,220 - $162,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Linux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own day-to-day EDA license server operations, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability across global engineering teams
Administer, troubleshoot, and resolve complex license issues involving FlexNet/FLEXlm and vendor-specific license managers
Monitor real-time license usage, queues, denials, and expirations; proactively address bottlenecks and outages
Manage license configurations, feature mappings, and allocation policies aligned with project priorities
Partner with engineering teams to support critical tapeouts, regressions, and peak-demand phases
Coordinate with EDA vendors on license renewals, upgrades, compliance questions, and escalations
Support audits, true-ups, and compliance reporting, ensuring accurate usage data and traceability
Drive cost optimization through usage analysis, pooling strategies, and rationalization of license portfolios
Build and maintain automation scripts and services for license monitoring, alerting, reporting, and remediation
Develop internal tools or dashboards for self-service visibility into license status, usage trends, and forecasts
Standardize operational workflows, documentation, and runbooks to reduce tribal knowledge and manual effort
Apply AI-assisted analytics to forecast license demand during peak project milestones, identify abnormal usage patterns or inefficiencies, and enhance reporting, summarization, and self-service support.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant professional experience, or Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 2+ years of relevant experience
Proven experience operating and scaling EDA license infrastructure in a production engineering environment
Hands‑on knowledge of EDA license managers (e.g., FlexNet/FLEXlm and vendor‑specific daemons)
Familiarity with major EDA tool suites (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, and others), including tool installation and basic environment setup
Experience supporting license compliance, audits, true‑ups, and vendor engagement
Ability to provide tier‑2 / tier‑3 operational support, including incident response, root‑cause analysis, and coordination with engineering teams and vendors
Strong scripting skills particularly in the context of flow development, automation, and operational tooling
Experience building or maintaining monitoring, reporting, and alerting systems
Solid understanding of Linux environments and operational best practices
Demonstrated strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and pragmatically
Operations‑first mindset with a high level of ownership and accountability
Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to translate technical details into actionable insights.

Benefits

Comp & perks

employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back
family support programs to help balance work and home life
robust mental health resources to prioritize emotional well-being
recognition and service awards to celebrate contributions and milestones

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Hard Skills & Tools

EDA license server operationsFlexNetFLEXlmlicense managementscriptingLinuxmonitoring systemsreporting systemsautomationroot-cause analysis

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsownershipaccountabilitycollaborationcreativitypragmatismincident responsecoordination