Digital Design Backend Engineering Intern, 3D and AI Flows
GlobalFoundries1 day ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Create benchmarks for vendor, startup, AI, agentic-AI, and GPU-acceleration solutions.
- Evaluate and create agentic AI digital-backend workflows to improve automation and productivity.
- Support engineering data environments and data warehouses that enable digital-backend agentic flows.
- Develop monolithic 3D place-and-route flows, improve quality of results, evaluate partitioning algorithms, and convert design-space exploration into agentic workflows.
- Follow Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security requirements and programs.
Requirements
- Actively pursue a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, VLSI Design, Computer Engineering, or a related field through an accredited program during the internship.
- Maintain at least a 3.0 overall GPA and good academic standing.
- Demonstrate English written and verbal fluency.
- Be willing to work onsite at the GlobalFoundries Santa Clara office for at least 10 hours per week during the internship.
- Preferred: prior related internship or co-op experience and leadership experience.
- Preferred: proficiency in Python, Pandas, NumPy, SQL, and graph-search techniques, with experience solving challenges on Kaggle or equivalent AI/ML competitions.
- Preferred: semiconductor design and automation experience and familiarity with Hugging Face, LangChain, Ollama, or related AI frameworks.
- Preferred: strong communication, planning, organizational, project management, innovation, execution, and ambiguity-navigation skills.
Benefits
- One-on-one mentorship, growth-focused work assignments, professional development opportunities, and networking with executives.
- Onsite work at the GlobalFoundries Santa Clara office.
- Internship schedule requires at least 10 hours per week.
- Reasonable accommodation is available for the employment process.
Categories
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.