AI-Powered PDK Engineer for Automated IC Verification

GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.; Town of Malta (NY); On-site; USD 69,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries is seeking an AI-Enabled PDK Development Engineer to develop, implement, and support AI-guided PDK solutions for LVS, DRC, PEX, OPC, and related Design Manual requirements. The role emphasizes Python, ML, NLP, and code-generation within commercial EDA environments.

The engineer will collaborate with PDK development teams across multiple domains, applying AI-enabled methods to improve efficiency, accuracy, and documentation for advanced CMOS and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• 2+ years AI/ML, software engineering, data science, automation, or related field; 3-5+ years for Level 6 aligned with GF scoping guidelines.
• Strong Python programming and software-engineering skills, including development of maintainable code, automated testing, debugging, version control, documentation, and integration of software components.
• Strong practical experience with AI/ML methods, large language models, code generation, NLP, retrieval/knowledge-grounding, optimization, or data analytics applied to engineering workflows.
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix environments; ability to validate AI outputs via deterministic checks, regression testing, expert review.
• Up to 10% travel and fluency in English (written and verbal).

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.
• Implement, test, and support automated pipelines that convert process and design requirements into structured rules, test cases, documentation, and quality evidence.
• Contribute to development and maintenance of positive/negative test layouts, golden references, coverage metrics, and regression suites for physical-verification and extraction deliverables.
• Use ML/NLP/code-generation techniques to identify rule gaps, inconsistencies, duplicate content, likely failure modes, and acceleration opportunities.
• Collaborate with process integration, device, modeling, mask, lithography, PDK, EDA, and circuit-design teams to translate tech requirements into accurate design collateral.

Skills

AI/ML experience

Python

Data analysis

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related field

Tools

EDA tools (Calibre, IC Validator/StarRC, Pegasus/PVS/Quantus)

Job description

GlobalFoundries is seeking an AI-Enabled PDK Development Engineer to develop, implement, and support AI-guided PDK solutions for LVS, DRC, PEX, OPC, and related Design Manual requirements. The role emphasizes Python, ML, NLP, and code-generation within commercial EDA environments.

The engineer will collaborate with PDK development teams across multiple domains, applying AI-enabled methods to improve efficiency, accuracy, and documentation for advanced CMOS and related technologies.