AI enabled PDK Development Engineer
GlobalFoundries15 days ago
Essex Junction, VT, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$69k - $120k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, test, maintain, and support PDK code and rule content for LVS, DRC, PEX, OPC, and Design Manual requirements.
- Apply AI-guided methods to generate, translate, review, debug, optimize, and regression-test rule-deck code under expert review and release controls.
- Build automated pipelines that convert approved process and design requirements into structured rules, test cases, documentation, and quality evidence.
- Maintain representative positive and negative test layouts, golden reference results, coverage metrics, and regression suites.
- Use machine learning, natural-language processing, code generation, and data analytics to identify rule gaps, inconsistencies, duplicate content, and likely failure modes.
- Analyze PEX and OPC outputs against silicon, process, metrology, electromagnetic, and simulation data and improve model and rule fidelity.
- Deliver and support software within commercial EDA environments and PDK release flows using version control, continuous integration, issue tracking, change management, and release documentation.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary semiconductor and design teams to translate technology requirements into accurate, maintainable, and customer-usable design collateral.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- Relevant experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering, data science, automation, or a closely related field; approximately 2+ years for Level 5 or 3-5+ years for Level 6 are preferred.
- Strong Python programming and software-engineering skills, including maintainable code, automated testing, debugging, version control, documentation, and software integration.
- Practical experience with AI/ML methods, large language models, code generation, natural-language processing, retrieval or knowledge-grounding techniques, optimization, or data analytics applied to engineering or software workflows.
- Proficiency with at least one additional language or development environment such as Tcl, Perl, C/C++, or Java, and experience in Linux/Unix environments.
- Ability to validate AI-generated outputs through deterministic checks, regression testing, expert review, version control, and documented acceptance criteria.
- Experience designing automated tests, regression suites, acceptance criteria, and structured technical documentation.
- Preferred qualifications include semiconductor, foundry, or PDK experience and familiarity with device physics, process layers, geometry rules, parasitic effects, layout verification, and PDK releases.
- Preferred experience includes EDA rule-deck or physical-verification platforms, AI-assisted coding agents, retrieval-augmented generation, automated test generation, static analysis, machine-readable design rules, PCell and technology-file development, or advanced-package verification.
- Preferred familiarity includes model governance, data provenance, secure proprietary-data use, reproducibility, continuous integration/continuous delivery, containerized environments, issue tracking, and automated PDK QA dashboards.
- Strong collaboration, communication, planning, organizational, and project-execution skills; fluency in written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Expected salary range is $69,000.00-$120,000.00, with exact salary based on qualifications, experience, and location.
- Up to 10% travel is required.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the employment process.
- Employment is conditioned on successful completion of applicable pre-employment conditions and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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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.