Design Application Engineer; College Grad

Position: Design Application Engineer (2027 New College Grad)
Location: Northern

## Design Application Engineer (2027 New College Grad)
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USA
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- Santa Clara:
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** About Global Foundries
** Global Foundries (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. 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.

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** New College Graduates Overview:
** We offer many full-time employment paths for recent graduates, which provide accelerated training in a fast-paced work environment, cross-functional working opportunities, and talent mobility. New college graduates are provided with mentorship, networking, and leadership opportunities, which give our new team members life-long connections and skills.  
** The Design Application Engineering Role:
** The Design Application Engineering (AE) team serves as the technical bridge between customers and GF, helping customers evaluate, adopt, and successfully implement GF technologies. Design AEs engage from early design concept through tape-out, translating application and product requirements into technology and enablement recommendations, coordinating cross-functional experts, guiding the use of PDKs and design flows, and resolving technical barriers. Through customer interface and internal collaboration, technical problem-solving, and clear documentation, the team supports first-time-right design execution.

** Summary of Role:
** Global Foundries is seeking a new college graduate to join the team as a Design Application Engineer supporting technical engagement from design concept through tape-out, targeting first-time-right design execution. The engineer will build expertise in GF technologies, translate customer application requirements into differentiated technical solutions, coordinate discussions with internal experts, resolve adoption barriers, and create the technical collateral and execution plans needed to support customers and enable a successful design.

** Essential

Responsibilities include:

*** Review and reproduce customer and enablement issues, technology application, design-flow requirements and recommend design enablement solutions aligned with those needs.
* Drive design enablement solutions with internal teams, subject matter experts, EDA partners, technology experts, to meet customer deadlines.
* Track actions, risks, customer cases and technical closure criteria.
* Take on internal business process projects to improve efficiency in a team or solo.
* Develop customer-facing presentations, application notes, evaluation summaries, and technical documentation that communicate GF technology differentiation, address adoption barriers, provide design flow information, for customer and internal reference as part of our continuous GF improvement efforts.  
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* Other Responsibilities:

*** Perform all activities in a professional, safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.  
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* Required Qualifications:

*** Education – Graduating with Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related field from an accredited degree program.
* Must have at least an overall 3.0 GPA and proven good academic standing.
* Language Fluency - English (Written & Verbal)  
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* Preferred Qualifications:

*** Prior related internship or co-op experience.
* Demonstrated prior leadership experience in the workplace, school projects, competitions, etc.
* Strong interest in leveraging AI tools and…