GlobalFoundries

Semiconductor foundry delivering specialized chips

Senior Member of Technical Staff – Field Application Engineering

Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeHsinchu, Hsinchu City, TaiwanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
At least 10 years of relevant experience.
Relevant experience in semiconductors (technology or design).
End-to-end experience from concept to silicon validation.
Excellent communication skills and a strong sales aptitude.
Exposure to integrated circuit product design and intellectual property is required.
Exposure to and basic competence in design environment, enablement flows, and tools.
A solid understanding of silicon processing and device physics.
Strong analytical, technical, and project management skills.
Strong analytical, technical, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of GlobalFoundries technology demonstrations and drive the design-win acquisition strategy and process.
Serve as the single technical interface to customers and coordinate all technical sales interactions.
Cultivate long-term strategic partnerships with clients to generate growing demand for differentiated solutions.
Partner with Customer Application Engineering and customers in the field to solve problems and develop solutions.
Assist Customer Application Engineering, account managers, and customers with semiconductor products throughout the development cycle to ensure successful application completion.
Develop customized technical presentations and proposals to assist customers in evaluating solutions.
Represent the strengths and weaknesses of GlobalFoundries technology credibly, internally and externally.
Formulate customer requirements, promote compelling GlobalFoundries design solutions, and convey the value proposition.
Identify and propose solutions to gaps and bottlenecks in the GlobalFoundries product and service portfolio to meet customer requirements.
Collaborate with product marketing, design solutions, and technology development teams, and provide real-time customer feedback.
Understand the competitive design, technology, and product landscape, including emerging technology trends and competitive threats.
Continuously learn about customers and products, develop relationships, gather intelligence, and uncover new opportunities.
Resolve issues, obstacles, and questions related to design wins directly or by engaging internal experts.
Gather, summarize, and drive the team to close technical gaps in offerings that result in design-win losses or missed new-revenue opportunities.
Partner with account and sales managers to ensure a smooth post-design-win transition to Customer Engineering teams.
Meet design-win, tapeout, and MPW goals.
Align customer mature- and advanced-node tapeout readiness preparation, including export-control forms, IP declaration forms, and frame tables.
Resolve issues, obstacles, and questions related to tapeouts directly or by engaging internal process experts.
Support Customer Engineers on all post-tapeout activities and requirements.
Coordinate with customers on silicon functionality verification, product performance, design margin, and issues.
Lead customer design reviews and mock tapeouts, and identify and align on all MPW and test-chip requirements before product design and tapeout.
Own or collaborate on all tapeout logistics and execution.

Desired Qualifications

Past participation in roles with exposure to or within a foundry is highly desirable.

About GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated,power efficient and high-performance solutions for high growth markets. With global manufacturing operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia, GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global teamremainsfocused every day on security, longevity, and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Introduction

GlobalFoundries seeks an experienced Field Application Engineer who will have responsibility for driving new design wins and providing successful tape out support to customers with GlobalFoundries technology.

Serve as a customer facing single technical interface to APAC (Taiwan) customers. Work with customers to find new opportunities, carrying out successful evaluations leading to DWINs, and providing support during the Design-In phase to ensure a successful first-time-right NPI.

Your Job

Take ownership over GF's technology demonstration and drive design win acquisition strategy and process
Serve as single technical interface to customer and coordinate all technical sales interaction
Cultivates long-term, strategic partnerships with clients to generate growing demand for our differentiated solutions
Partners with Customer Application Engineering (CAE) and customer in the field to problem solve and develop solutions
Assists CAE, AM and customer on the organization's semiconductor products throughout the development cycle to ensure successful completion of the application
Develop customized technical presentations and proposals to assist customers in the evaluation of our solutions
Offer most credible representation of strengths and weaknesses of the GlobalFoundries technology (internally & externally)
Formulate customer requirements and promote a compelling GlobalFoundries design solution and convey our value proposition
Identify and propose solutions to gaps and bottlenecks in the GlobalFoundries product and service portfolio to meet customer requirements
Collaborate and leverage GlobalFoundries product marketing/design solutions/technology development teams, and provide real time customer feedback
Understand competitive design/technology/product landscape including emerging technology trends and competitive threats
Continuously learn about the customer and product, developing relationships, gathering intelligence, uncovering new opportunities
Ensure that issues/obstacles/questions to a design win are resolved either directly or by engaging internal experts
Gather, summarize and drive team to close the technical gaps in our offerings that result in design win losses and/or misses in new revenue opportunities
Partner with account and sales managers, working to ensure a smooth post-design win transition to Customer Engineering teams
Meet design win, tape out, and MPW goals
Responsible for aligning customer mature and advanced node tapeout readiness preparation, ex. export control form, IP declaration form, frame table, etc.
Ensure that issues/obstacles/quetions.stions to a tapeout are resolved either directly or by engaging internal process experts.
Support CE (Customer Engineer) on all post-TO activities and requirements.
Co-ordinate with customer around Si functionality verification, product performance, design margin and any issues
Lead customer design reviews and mock TOs, and responsible for identifying and aligning on all MPW / test chip requirements prior to product design and TO.
Own / Collaborate on all tapeout logistics / execution

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree / master’s degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Minimum 10 years in relevant experience
Relevant Experience Semiconductors (Technology or Design)
E2E experience from concept to Silicon Validation
Excellent communication skills and a strong sales aptitude
Exposure to IC product design and IP required
Exposure and basic competence in design environment/enablement flows and tools
A solid understanding of silicon processing and device physics
Past participation in roles with exposure to or within a foundry highly desirable
Strong analytical, technical and project management skills.
Excellent communication skills
Strong analytical, technical and presentation skills

GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer, cultivating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity,efficiencyand innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected,valuedand heard.

As an affirmative employer, all qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation and medical and/or physical abilities.

All offers of employment with GlobalFoundries are conditioned upon the successful completion of background checks, medical screenings as applicable and subject to the respective local laws and regulations.

No Recruitment Fee Policy: GlobalFoundries is committed to ethical and transparent hiring practices.Candidates will not be charged any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. Any request for payment related to a GlobalFoundries employment opportunity is unauthorized and should be reportedimmediately. All legitimate recruitment communications are conducted exclusively through official GlobalFoundries channels. To report concerns or suspected recruitment fraud, please contact our Ethics & Compliance Office at[email protected]or visit our official website.

Information about our benefits you can find here: https://gf.com/about-us/careers/opportunities-asia

About the Company

GlobalFoundries

Semiconductor foundry delivering specialized chips

GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor foundry that manufactures chips for a broad range of customers, focusing on feature-rich, reliable technologies for cars, IoT, 5G, and other high-growth markets. It operates by fabricating silicon wafers for customer designs, offering mature, specialized processes rather than chasing the most advanced nodes. This makes it different from peers that prize the latest process nodes; GlobalFoundries emphasizes diversification across a global manufacturing footprint (U.S., Europe, Singapore) and stable supply for essential applications. Its goal is to be a leading supplier of high-volume, specialty manufacturing that enables reliable chips for everyday devices and growing tech markets.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Town of Malta, New York
Founded: 2009

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