EDA Tools License Management

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Job Details: Job Description: 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. Qualifications: Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Minimum Qualifications: • 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. Job Type: Experienced Hire Shift: Shift 1 (India) Primary Location: India, Bangalore Additional Locations: Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance. Position of Trust N/A Work Model for this Role This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change. * ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.