EDA Tools License Management
Intel · Posted Oct 27
Semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessors, data center solutions, and artificial intelligence infrastructure
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About the role
The role sits within Intel's hardware engineering tooling environment, managing EDA license operations, governance, compliance, and optimization so design teams have reliable access to critical design tools. The work spans entitlement tracking, usage analysis, cost optimization, audit readiness, and contract compliance with major EDA suppliers, along with migrating the license environment to SLES15 and testing end-user scripts and automation. The position partners with design, contract management, procurement, finance, legal, IT, and EDA vendors on tool enablement, license planning, and renewal strategy.
What you will do
- Manages EDA license operations, governance, compliance, and optimization to ensure reliable access to critical design tools across hardware engineering teams.
- Defines and executes license management processes for major EDA suppliers, including entitlement tracking, usage analysis, cost optimization, audit readiness, and contract compliance.
- Addresses complex compliance challenges such as reconciling supplier entitlements against actual tool usage, preventing over-deployment or unauthorized access, validating geographic and business-unit usage restrictions, managing license transfers during reorganizations or divestitures, ensuring usage-reporting accuracy, and preparing defensible documentation for supplier audits.
- Required to migrate the license environment to SLES15, ensuring testing of end users' scripts and automation workflows to improve license visibility, reduce manual effort, and enable data-driven decision-making.
- Partners with design, contract manager, procurement, finance, legal, IT, and EDA vendors to support tool enablement, license planning, renewal strategy, and business continuity.
- Builds deep understanding of EDA tool usage, licensing models, supplier agreements, and operational controls to ensure scalable, compliant, and cost-effective license management across technology programs.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4-12 years of Experience managing EDA license operations, license servers, vendor daemons, or engineering tool infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of EDA licensing models, entitlement tracking, usage analysis, renewals, and supplier compliance.
- Experience supporting audits, entitlement reconciliation, usage validation, and compliance documentation.
- Ability to analyze license data, identify optimization opportunities, and communicate risks or recommendations to stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with design, procurement, contract management, finance, legal, IT, and suppliers.
- Experience with FlexNet/FLEXlm, Linux/SLES license environments, vendor daemon upgrades, or license migrations.
- Experience in Linux and Unix.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with major EDA suppliers such as Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDA, Ansys, Keysight, or Arm.
- Experience building dashboards, databases, scripts, or automation for license visibility, usage monitoring, compliance, or renewals.
- Knowledge of complex licensing models, including token-based, named-user, geographic, business-unit, cloud, or royalty-based licensing.
- Ability to translate license data into executive summaries, risk assessments, and supplier negotiation inputs.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Intel
Intel Corporation is a global technology leader focused on the design and manufacturing of microprocessors, integrated circuits, and advanced data center infrastructure. The company drives innovation across personal computing, artificial intelligence, and cloud ecosystems while operating a major semiconductor foundry business. Intel delivers foundational silicon and packaging solutions that power modern digital infrastructure worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1968
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Lip-Bu Tan
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Pushkar Ranade
Chief Technology Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO
Executive Vice President – Chief Technology and Operations Officer, General Manager Intel Foundry
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