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Location: Bengaluru
Company: GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries is looking for a highly motivated engineer to work in the Global Tapeout and Mask Organisation, as a Frame Design Engineer located in Bangalore, India. The successful candidate will support tapeout operations activities that would vary from frame design for a range of technologies to process improvements for enhanced productivity and quality. This role requires working with worldwide Frame and other engineers that use semiconductor manufacturing tools (i.e., lithography and metrology) and test tools in our Fabs. The successful candidate would be engaging in continuous process improvement in the increasingly complex world of chip manufacturing by applying Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, structured problem-solving and driving actions to reduce risks.
Job Responsibilities
- Engage in daily operations activities: facilitating technology frame requirements, frame structures layout and frame generation for chips, ad-hoc change execution, work queue prioritisation, and work hand-off across geographic locations.
- Use or customise internally developed software tools and commercially available software tools to enhance design process productivity. (Include generating input files that drive automation for Fabs and Mask House.)
- Make decisions to hold, escalate, promote and reject tape out support issues in alignment with FAB, Tape out Logistics Integration and AEs.
- Interact with other teams such as Application Engineering, Product Engineering, Release Team, and Design Enablement, to assist with providing a best-in-class Customer Tape-out Operations experience.
- Close collaboration with FAB and TD Team to provide solutions to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve cycle time.
- Participate in assessing our team business processes and suggest continuous improvements as well as automation opportunities to enhance the team’s productivity.
- Ensure that processes are well documented, that failure modes are assessed and that mitigation and detection in place.
- Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in EE/ECE/CSE/Physics of 1+ years of industry experience OR engineering diploma with 2+ years of relevant industry experience
- Working knowledge of Unix shells and interest/aptitude to learn domain-specific programming/scripting languages/data formats
- Experience with Cadence Mask Compose is a big plus
- Experience with the Virtuoso environment and SKILL Programming, Device Layout Knowledge/Experience will be a plus
- Ability to communicate and work with cross-geographic, multi-cultural global teams
- Fluency in the English language, written & verbal, is a requirement.
- Analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills are basic requirements.
- This role requires working in an evening shift (3 pm-12 am) and supporting weekend and holiday coverage on the assigned dates.
