GlobalFoundries · 2 days ago
SMTS Field Application Eng
Shanghai, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expGlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to technology companies. They seek an experienced Field Application Engineer responsible for driving new design wins and providing successful tape out support to customers with GlobalFoundries technology.
ElectronicsManufacturingSemiconductor
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Minimum 8 years in relevant experience
Language Fluency – English and Mandarin (Written & Verbal)
Preferred
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
Company
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries is a full-service semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits in high volume.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.39BKey Investors
European CommissionU.S. Department of CommerceU.S. Department of Defense
2025-12-11Grant· $579.33M
2024-11-20Grant· $1.5B
2024-05-22Post Ipo Secondary· $750M
Leadership Team
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DK Sohn
VP
Jonathan Park
IP Strategy and Offering Management
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