Senior AI Software Application Engineer
GlobalFoundries2 months ago
Yokohama, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver customer-facing training programs, workshops, presentations, tutorials, and application notes.
- Support customers in mapping, optimizing, and deploying CNN, transformer, and LLM workloads on customer silicon.
- Reproduce, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve customer-reported software issues across pre-silicon and post-silicon stages.
- Collaborate with R&D to validate bug fixes, feature enhancements, and performance optimizations.
- Develop proof-of-concept solutions, benchmark applications, and demonstration platforms for the AI software toolchain.
- Analyze AI performance bottlenecks and recommend software optimization and hardware/software co-design improvements.
- Serve as a technical liaison between customers and internal engineering teams and support technical reviews and workshops.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field plus at least 6 years of relevant industry experience, or a bachelor’s degree plus at least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Deep understanding of AI and machine learning algorithms, including convolutional neural networks, transformer architectures, large language models, deep learning optimization, and model deployment workflows.
- Strong programming skills in Python, shell scripting, and C/C++.
- Extensive experience in software design, development, debugging, and optimization.
- Experience developing and optimizing software on embedded systems and SoC platforms, including profiling AI workloads on embedded processors and accelerators.
- Familiarity with software development in pre-silicon simulation or emulation environments and post-silicon hardware platforms.
- Preferred qualifications include Linux device driver development, AI accelerator experience, compiler and runtime technologies, AI software stacks, PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and heterogeneous computing architectures.
Benefits
- Equal opportunity and affirmative employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- Employment offers are conditioned on successful background checks and applicable medical screenings, subject to local laws and regulations.
- Benefits information is provided through the company careers website.
- Customer engagements may involve onsite or virtual workshops.
About GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries manufactures semiconductors as a contract foundry, offering process technologies, design enablement, and wafer fabrication for chip designers and device makers across automotive, data center, mobile, and IoT markets. Headquartered in Malta, New York and founded in 2009, it operates fabs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and is listed on Nasdaq (GFS). Customers use its analog/RF, high-voltage, and specialty nodes alongside advanced CMOS.