Design Application Engineering - GLOBALFOUNDRIES : Job Details

Design Application Engineering

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Job Location : Santa Clara,CA, USA

Posted on : 2025-08-11T07:41:40Z

Job Description :

About GlobalFoundries:

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world's most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role:To be a part of the US Application Engineering team, providing excellent technical customer support for GF technologies, focused on Power Management applications, leading to successful tape-outs.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Cultivate long-term, strategic partnerships and alignment with GF customers to generate growing demand for our differentiated solutions

  • Meet with GF customers to collect or better understand technical requests and issues gating design

  • Provide application engineering solutions to solve complex design issues and ensure the customer's success

  • Analyze customer requirements for application of GF's products

  • Work independently under minimal supervision

  • Routinely report status of projects and address design gating issues with urgency

  • Advocate for customer to our internal development organizations to improve and enhance the GF's enablement solutions, technologies and business processes

  • Resolve customer technical issues through GF's case system

  • Support GF teams in creating or maintaining technical customer-facing documents

  • Routinely coordinate and participate with GF teams to drive technical development, continuous improvement, cost reduction or productivity improvement

  • Travel - Up to 10%, as needed

Other Responsibilities:

  • Be a company-wide subject matter expert in circuit design, applications or enablement, and able to guide or mentor peers on GF solutions or issue resolution

  • Solve complex problems and bring innovation to problem-solving

  • Represent the Application Engineering team within GF or in customer-related engagements

  • Generate documents to facilitate customer issue resolution and internal business process introduction or improvements

  • Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Compliance, Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs at GF

  • Work and collaborate on other projects and assignments, as needed

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 6+ years in semiconductor manufacturing, design or enablement

  • Experience with circuit design environment, tools & methodologies

  • Experience Power Management technology, application, design, PDK or design tools & methodologies

  • Experience with Linux, shell scripting, SVRF, TCL, Python or other automation languages & environment

  • Consistent performance and professionalism

  • Skilled with Microsoft tools (e.g. Office, Outlook, SharePoint, MS-Dynamics, etc.)

  • Strong communication skills

  • Strong planning & organizational skill

  • Fluency in English Language – written & verbal

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's in Electrical, Computer Engineering or related field with 7+ years in semiconductor manufacturing, design, or enablement; or

  • PhD in Electrical, Computer Engineering or related field with 5+ years in semiconductor manufacturing, design or enablement

  • Publication of design, application or design enablement documents in previous roles

  • Experience with modeling, ESD, latch-up

  • Experience with Booleans and design rules

  • Experience with physical design, DRC, DFM

  • Familiarity with device physics

  • Familiarity with the tape-out process

  • Familiarity with PCMs, process KPIs

  • Familiarity with silicon manufacturing

  • Project management

  • Sales or Customer interface

  • Cross-functional project leadership/participation

Expected Salary Range

$94,300.00 - $231,600.00

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.

GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory.

All policies and processes which pertain to employees including recruitment, selection, training, utilization, promotion, compensation, benefits, extracurricular programs, and termination are created and implemented without regard to age, ethnicity, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic or category specified by local, state or federal law

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