As a Senior Linux Systems Engineer within the HW Engineering Compute team, you will be responsible for the health, performance, and scalability of massive-scale compute environments that power Qualcomm’s next-generation semiconductor design. This will relate to management, configuration, and augmentation of the HPC servers leveraged to enable Qualcomm’s Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads both on-premises and in public cloud. 

Our Hybrid Cloud strategy will require maintenance and evolution of our current cloud footprint for "bursting" of workloads from on-premises data centers to major public cloud providers. This includes optimizing for both cost and performance within the unique context of that environment. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide expert-level administration for enterprise Linux distributions including RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu and SLES. 

• Unify infrastructure using configuration management to ensure configuration parity between on-prem and cloud environments. 

• Develop script-based automations to facilitate "passive" knowledge capture, transcribing triage sessions into structured workflows that can be applied to future cloud-scale issues. 

• Architect and maintain Cloud Bursting solutions that allow on-premises HPC schedulers (Slurm/LSF) to dynamically scale into public cloud environments. 

• Optimize cloud instance selection for specific EDA tool behaviors (e.g., memory-intensive synthesis vs. compute-heavy simulation), focusing on HPC-optimized instances and specialized networking (e.g., AWS EFA). 

• Implement cost-governance strategies for cloud compute to minimize waste without impacting engineering schedules. 

• Utilize observability tools to monitor workloads, identifying bottlenecks in on premises workloads or the cloud 

• Understand key facilities within the Linux OS to improve EDA tool performance 

• Understand how to interact with HPC job schedulers (Slurm, PBS, or LSF) to ensure high throughput and fair resource allocation for massive EDA workloads. 

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related STEM field. 

• Experience: 3+ years of direct Linux system administration experience. 

• Cloud: Experience deploying and managing Linux-based workloads in at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP). 

Preferred Qualifications 

• EDA Experience: Familiarity with the compute requirements of EDA tools (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics). 

• Cloud HPC: Experience with cloud-native HPC tools like AWS Parallel Cluster, Azure CycleCloud, or cloud-based NetApp/Lustre storage. 

• IaC Mastery: Advanced proficiency with Terraform for multi-cloud infrastructure deployment. 

• Certification: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator Associate, or equivalent GCP certification.