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# Design Application Engineer

- **Company:** Globalfoundries U.S. Inc.
- **Location:** Round Lake, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Application Notes, Computer Engineering, Electronic Design Automation, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_8CD24B8E47724ED78E5FF33688CD6A48-NY1730460

## About the Role

Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience; OR Master's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience; OR PhD with 1+ years of relevant experience.
Demonstrated expertise in one or more Application Engineering disciplines, including: IC Design Design Methodology and EDA Tools Design Enablement Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and develop customer-focused solutions.
Experience leading or contributing to projects from initiation through successful completion.
Strong collaboration and cross-functional teamwork skills.
Demonstrated ability to improve engineering methods, standards, and reusable solutions.
Ability to provide technical guidance and support to peers.
Preferred Qualifications Expertise spanning multiple technical disciplines relevant to semiconductor design enablement.
Ability to lead ambiguous, complex, and non-recurring technical challenges across organizations and customer engagements.
Demonstrated ability to establish new approaches that deliver sustained organizational or customer impact.
Experience mentoring engineers and growing technical capability within an organization.
Familiarity with semiconductor design flows, PDKs, EDA tools, and customer support environments.
Recognized by peers, custo ers

## Description

This role is responsible for driving customer success, resolving complex technical issues, developing scalable engineering solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful customer design execution from initial engagement through tape-out readiness.
The successful candidate will own customer and design enablement responsibilities, lead technical execution, and contribute to continuous improvements in engineering methodologies, workflows, and reusable solutions.
Essential Responsibilities Own technical execution for assigned customers, applications, technology platforms, or engineering workstreams.
Drive implementation of customer design enablement capabilities in collaboration with internal development teams and support organizations.
Resolve complex customer and engineering challenges through structured root-cause analysis, risk assessment, and corrective action implementation.
Coordinate technical solutions across PDK, modeling, IP, EDA, reliability, product engineering, quality, sales, and customer organizations.
Improve engineering standards, reusable design flows, case management processes, automation, and support infrastructure.
Manage technical scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, and recovery plans for assigned projects.
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, case reviews, documentation, training, and knowledge sharing.
Represent Application Engineering in customer engagements and cross-functional technical forums.
Evaluate emerging technologies, design methodologies, and EDA tool capabilities and recommend adoption based on technical and business value.
Develop high-quality application notes, troubleshooting guides, reference flows, operational procedures, and technical documentation.
Other Responsibilities Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EHS&S) requirements and programs.