Eda License Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +3

This role manages and optimizes engineering software licenses, specifically FlexLM/FLEXnet EDA license servers in Linux environments. Responsibilities include daily operations, troubleshooting license issues, ensuring compliance, improving reliability through automation and monitoring, and leading small projects. Requires strong experience with FlexLM, Linux system administration, and operating high-availability infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the day-to-day operation and lifecycle management of FlexLM/FLEXnet EDA license servers in Linux environments, including installs, upgrades, renewals, rereads, and decommissioning.
  2. Diagnose and resolve license availability, checkout, and performance issues using tools such as lmstat, debug logs, and operational telemetry.
  3. Partner with EDA tool owners, infrastructure teams, and security collaborators to ensure license compliance, access control, and export-restricted usage policies.
  4. Improve reliability and observability of license infrastructure through automation, monitoring, and data analysis of license usage and trends.
  5. Lead or own small to medium-sized projects to improve licensing workflows, tooling, or operational scalability.

Skills

Required

  • FlexLM / FLEXnet licensing
  • Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS)
  • process management
  • logging
  • networking basics
  • scripting
  • operating production infrastructure with high availability and reliability expectations
  • independent work within broadly defined objectives
  • sound technical judgment
  • collaboration across teams
  • clear communication
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in a related field

Nice to have

  • Reprise License Manager
  • automation using scripting (python or shell)
  • infrastructure tooling such as Ansible
  • license allocation methods (options files, dedicated license pools, License Scheduler)
  • supporting EDA toolchains (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens)
  • security, export-control, or access-restriction requirements
  • ownership of infrastructure projects that improved reliability, scalability, or operational efficiency

What the JD emphasized

  • FlexLM / FLEXnet licensing
  • Linux system administration
  • high availability and reliability expectations
  • license compliance