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Staff · 8+ years exp
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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 9, 2026. GlobalFoundries scores B on the Alion truth index.

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GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor foundry headquartered in Malta, New York, near Albany, that manufactures chips for other companies on FD-SOI, FinFET, RF, silicon germanium, silicon photonics, power and GaN process technologies, and also offers MIPS processor designs. Founded in 2009 and listed on Nasdaq, it runs fabs in New York, Vermont, Dresden and Singapore with engineering and design centres in Austin, Santa Clara, Bengaluru and Penang. It hires process, equipment, yield and tapeout engineers, maintenance technicians and apprentices, field application engineers and interns in engineering and finance.

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.

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 China customers.

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

  • 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/questions 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 in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent

  • Minimum 8 years in relevant experience

  • Language Fluency - English and Mandarin (Written & Verbal)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent

  • 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.

  • Minimum 5 years in relevant experience

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Strong analytical, technical and presentation skills

Job Details

  • Job location: Shanghai China

  • Job Grade: Senior Staff level

  • Reports to: China FAE Manager

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

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

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