Hiring: Director of CAD & IT Company: CspeedIO, Inc. Location: Palo Alto, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 14:58:10 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : AutoCAD, CAD, EDA, Linux, SAML, SIEM, SOC, SOC 2, SaaS, macOS About the job Experience: •CAD: 10+ years in semiconductor design infrastructure at a fabless or IDM; ran design compute, EDA licensing operations at $5–10M scale, and PDK/design-data management; supported tape-outs under deadline. Required Skills: •IT: ran identity as a system (SAML/SCIM, conditional access, hardware keys); managed a multi-country Windows/macOS/Linux fleet; managed an MSP against an SLA they wrote; completed customer security questionnaires unaided. •Security: operated EDR across mixed Windows/Linux fleets; personally owned a real incident end to end; ran security through outsourced SOC/MDR and SIEM vendors and owned the detection outcome anyway; built access-controlled environments for sensitive IP. •Across all of it: built from near-zero at least once; an aggressive, hands-on adopter of AI in their own work; effective across Asia time zones with a small team plus vendors; translates technical risk into executive decisions; a U.S. person or eligible for required export authorizations. •What This Role Is Not •Not a caretaker role, not a single-discipline role, not the EDA contract owner, and not paper security — this role runs the controls, it does not just document them. Qualifications: •TCP/deemed-export operating experience; Defender, Intune, and Entra conditional access in production; FreeIPA in Linux design environments; ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST 800-171 exposure. Compensation: •10+ years in semiconductor design infrastructure at a fabless or IDM; ran design compute, EDA licensing operations at $5–10M scale, and PDK/design-data management; supported tape-outs under deadline. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!