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Introduction

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Application Engineer to join our EMEA AE team. GF Application Engineers support the design process of GF customers from design start to tape-out ensuring that customers can design efficiently high-quality volume products to GF technologies.

The successful candidate will apply prior design, design enablement and technology expertise to the resolution of technical, design-oriented customer cases, customer training and onboarding, design debugging, and guidance on technology selection and architecture definition.

This role requires a strong technical design background, the ability to manage complex customer interactions as well as working with external partners and internal technical teams across organization boundaries.

Your Job

• Technical Case Response: Drive technical, design-oriented customer cases to resolution working with internal technology, PDK, IP and design methodology teams, but also potentially interact with external, 3rd party IP and EDA SW providers.

• Customer Training and Onboarding: Develop and deliver comprehensive training and onboarding material for customers, ensuring they are well-equipped to use GF products and solutions.

• Design Debugging: Provide expert support in debugging design issues, working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.

• Technology Guidance: Offer guidance on technology selection and architecture definition to help customers make informed decisions.

• PPA Solutions: Address Performance, Power, and Area (PPA) requests from customers, providing tailored solutions to meet their needs.

• Customer Tapeouts: Support customer tapeouts, ensuring that all technical aspects are addressed effectively.

• Mentorship: Mentor and train junior engineers.

Required Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields with several years of relevant experience in Digital or Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) back-end design RTL/Schematic to GDS including physical and electrical design verification.

• Expert, hands-on user of IC design environment/ enablement flows, preferably using Cadence EDA software tools and flows (choose at least one...)

Digital RTL2GDS implementation (Synthesis, Place&Route, Design Finishing) and verification (STA, EMIR, physical verification)

• AMS Virtuoso, Spice simulation, Monte-Carlo simulation and variation analysis, reliability verification, physical verification.

• IP design creation, focus on view generation and IP integration verification. Knowledge in generation of advanced IP views for variation and reliability

• Understanding of SoC architecture and design concepts and requirements.

• Experience in the design for Automotive, IoT, Connectivity or AI products and knowledge of the system and quality requirement of these product categories.

• Experience in design bring-up and debugging.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Fluent in English (at least C1).

We Offer

The position is open-ended and to be filled as soon as possible.

Attractive compensation components:

Competitive salary structure, performance based bonus payments, assistance with relocation, Job ticket

Flexible working time arrangements:

Trust flextime, remote work opportunity

Diverse opportunities for further development:

Career stages for every job, internal qualification offers, promotion of external educational qualifications

Corporate culture:

Cooperation at eye level - everyone is on first name terms with us, budget for individual team events, social commitment via Global Gives

Diversity is part of our corporate DNA. For this reason, we would like to encourage women in particular to apply for a job with us. As we value equal opportunities and inclusion is particularly important to us, we welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The job advertisement refers to a position up to job level 7 on the Engineering career ladder.

Information about our benefits you can find here: https://gf.com/careers/opportunities-in-europe/