CScale is a startup 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.

CScale 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.

The Role

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 globally, and the security program that spans both. You will operate an EDA setting, 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. 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, SAML/SCIM, conditional access, hardware-key MFA), the global Windows/macOS/Linux endpoint fleet under unified MDM, WAN globally, the SaaS portfolio and its spend, and the MSP managed against an SLA you write.
- Security across both zones. EDR on every host including Linux design machines; the outsourced security stack — SOC/

📌 Director of CAD (Bengaluru)
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