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Role
: Support Engineer
Duration : Long Term
Remote
Terms : C2C
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated
Contract Support Engineer to support our secure, cloud‑based silicon chip design environments used by our
external customers for mission‑critical EDA and HPC workloads.
This role is customer‑facing and service‑oriented, requiring not only
strong technical expertise, but also a commitment to
responsiveness, professionalism, and delivering an exceptional customer experience.
The
Support Engineer will be responsible for maintaining system
reliability, resolving issues quickly and accurately, and proactively
improving the platform through
automation and agentic AI. Success in this role is measured not just by technical outcomes, but by
customer satisfaction, trust, and confidence in the service.
This position involves working with
export‑restricted data (ITAR/CUI) and supporting secure environments with high operational and compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Support & Service Excellence
- Serve as a primary technical support contact for
external customers using secure cloud‑based silicon design platforms
- Deliver
timely, responsive, and high‑quality support, ensuring customer issues are acknowledged, communicated, and resolved effectively
- Actively focus on
delighting customers by minimizing downtime, anticipating needs, and exceeding service expectations
- Clearly communicate technical issues, status updates, and resolutions to customers with varying levels of technical expertise
- Build trust with customers through professionalism, accountability, and consistent follow‑through
Platform & Environment Support
- Support and troubleshoot
Linux‑based cloud environments used for silicon design and verification workflows
- Maintain availability, performance, and reliability of secure multi‑tenant environments
- Diagnose and resolve system‑level issues across compute, storage, networking, and identity services
HPC, Licensing & Performance Management
- Monitor
HPC cluster performance, job throughput, and queue health
- Identify and remediate
HPC job performance issues, including scheduler configuration, resource contention, I/O bottlenecks, and memory constraints
- Troubleshoot and resolve
license availability, utilization, and checkout issues impacting customer workloads
- Support distributed resource managers (e.g., Slurm, LSF, SGE, or similar technologies)
Automation & Agentic AI
- Develop and maintain automation to streamline recurring operational tasks, including:
- System health, performance, and capacity monitoring
- User provisioning and de‑provisioning
- License usage tracking and alerting
- Detection of abnormal system or job behavior
- Use
agentic AI, Python, shell scripting, Perl, or similar technologies to reduce manual effort and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR)
- Continuously improve operational efficiency while enhancing the customer experience
Security, Compliance & Operations
- Operate and support systems containing
ITAR‑controlled and CUI data in compliance with regulatory and company requirements
- Follow documented security, access control, auditing, and change management processes
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
- Create and maintain
runbooks, knowledge base articles, and customer‑facing documentation
Required Qualifications
Technical Skills
- Strong hands‑on experience with
Linux system administration and troubleshooting
- Experience supporting
HPC or large‑scale compute environments
- Proficiency in
Python, shell scripting, Perl, or other automation‑focused programming languages
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Familiarity with license management systems (e.g., FlexNet/FLEXlm or equivalent)
Customer Service & Professional Skills
- Demonstrated ability to provide
excellent customer service in a technical support or operations role
- Strong sense of urgency and ownership when responding to customer issues
- Ability to balance technical depth with clear, customer‑friendly communication
- Organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple customer issues simultaneously
Security & Compliance
- Ability to work with
export‑restricted data (ITAR/CUI)
- U.S. Person status or eligibility as required to support export‑controlled environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting
EDA, semiconductor, or silicon design environments
- Familiarity with cloud‑based HPC platforms (public, private, or hybrid)
- Experience applying
AI‑assisted or autonomous automation in operations or support contexts
- Exposure to configuration management or infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience