Senior Compute Platform Engineer, LSF - EDA Infrastructure
Core
Deep-specialist engineer owning scheduler behavior, tuning, and federation design for NVIDIA's massive EDA compute farm running millions of cores on IBM Spectrum LSF.
Role type
Senior IC HPC/LSF infrastructure engineer
Builds
Federated LSF cells and multi-cluster scheduling infrastructure for EDA simulations and tape-outs
Domain
Semiconductor EDA / High-Performance Computing
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
IBM Spectrum LSF internals, LSF scheduler tuning (mbatchd/mbschd), MultiCluster federation, Linux systems programming, Python/Perl scripting, HPC batch compute architecture
Preferred skills
LSF development/escalation experience, LSF API integration (esub/eexec/elim), semiconductor/EDA domain knowledge, large-scale migration experience (Slurm/PBS/Grid Engine)
Responsibilities
Own scheduler behavior across 15–25 federated LSF cells, diagnose MultiCluster forwarding problems, set technical design for cell topology and federation, encode scheduler policy into IaC config schemas, partner with CAD teams on complex workloads
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
