Product Owner - Tapeout and Mask Operations

Title: Product Owner, Tapeout and Mask Operations

About GF
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 team remains focused every day on security, longevity, and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gf.com. 

Your Role:

The Product Owner will own and drive product outcomes for GF’s tapeout and mask operations solutions, including design data verification, product configuration, and related data platforms. This role is responsible for translating business needs into clear product requirements, prioritizing the backlog, aligning stakeholders, and enabling reliable delivery of customer-focused solutions. In addition should have some hands-on experience in building product features and functional testing as required.

Key Responsibilities 

Product Ownership Responsibilities 

• Own product requirements, roadmap priorities, backlog management, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release readiness. 

• Partner with engineering, IT, Product Lines, fabs, Sales, and operations teams to align priorities and deliver business value. 

• Drive improvements across design data verification, product configuration in CRM, and supporting data platforms. 

• Ensure product requirements support usability, data quality, workflow consistency, security, and compliance needs. 

• Track product success through adoption, defect trends, cycle-time improvements, stakeholder feedback, and operational impact. 

• Build, create and execute functional testing  as required using technical skills as mentioned. 

Other Responsibilities 

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security requirements and programs. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (EE, CE, CS, or a related field) and Master's or PhD preferred. 

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor operations, product ownership, product management, data management, or related technical domain. 

• Experience owning product requirements, backlog prioritization, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release readiness. 

• Knowledge of semiconductor design data, tapeout flows, or related technical manufacturing domains.  

• Strong understanding of data governance, scalability, and security. 

• Strong communication, planning, analytical, and stakeholder management skills. 

Preferred Technical Skills (EDA & CAD Tools) 

Experience in the following areas is preferred: 

• Layout data formats such as GDSII and OASIS 

• Mask layers and mask data preparation 

• Process Design Kits (PDKs) 

• Devices and parameterized cells (Pcells) 

• Design rule concepts 

• Exposure to semiconductor design and/or tapeout 

• EDA software experience (Calibre, Siemens, Cadence, ASML Brion) 

• Verification flows and design data analysis 

Scripting and Automation 

• Python 

• Tcl 

• Shell scripting 

• Linux environments 

• IBM LSF 

• AWS Basics   

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