Cspeed IO is a stealth start up backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and Atreides Capital - headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Our executive team has a demonstrated track record of building and scaling category-defining semiconductor and infrastructure businesses at companies like Broadcom, Lumentum, Tesla, Apple, Samsung, Intel, and VMware.
Cspeed IO is developing next-generation optical semiconductor solutions for the AI infrastructure market, focused on enabling true “scale-up” architectures. Our mission is to replace traditional copper interconnects with advanced fiber-optic technologies that overcome the limitations of existing optics solutions and architectures.
A build role spanning three intertwined domains: design infrastructure (the CAD, compute, and EDA environment our silicon depends on), corporate IT (identity, endpoints, connectivity, and SaaS for a five-site global company), and the security program that spans both. There is no internal IT department today — the environment is MSP-supported and the architecture is yours to define.



You will operate an EDA setting representing $5–10M in annual spend, a three-zone infrastructure model (Corporate, Design/CAD, Lab/OT) governed by export-control classification. CAD and IT carry equal weight, and security is required within both: our technology is export-controlled, our customers are the most security-demanding infrastructure buyers on earth, and there is no CISO above this role. And we expect aggression on AI: this role drives aggressive AI use and adoption across the company rather than waiting to be asked.
What You Will Own
Design infrastructure & CAD. Design compute (batch scheduling, cloud burst), EDA licensing operations — license servers, utilization telemetry, denial-rate and cost-per-seat reporting; contract and IP negotiation stays with company leadership — the access-controlled PDK enclave, design data management, and storage engineered for EDA workloads.
Corporate IT. Identity as a system (single IdP,

📌 Director of CAD (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cspeed
📍 Bengaluru