Digital Design Backend Engineering Intern, 3D and AI Flows

About GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated, power‑efficient and high‑performance solutions for high‑growth markets. GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global team remains focused every day on security, longevity and sustainability. For more information, visit .

Internship Program Overview:

Our Interns & Co-ops are our entry-level talent pipeline for GF across the globe. Our goal is to provide students with a meaningful work experience that will equip them with the skills to embark on a career in the fast-paced and growing semiconductor industry after graduation. As an intern at GF, you’ll experience one-on-one mentorship, work assignments that prioritize your growth and potential, professional development opportunities, and the chance to network with executives.

Summary of Role:

You will be working as an intern on the AI Research team developing solutions that accelerate GlobalFoundries product development across design, PDK and specifications. You will collaborate with ecosystem startups, universities, internal AI researchers and semiconductor domain experts to evaluate and develop AI solutions, GPU acceleration capabilities, and agentic digital-backend flows for advanced 2D and 3D design.

Essential Responsibilities include:

• Create benchmarks for evaluating vendor, startup, AI, agentic-AI, and GPU-acceleration solutions.

• Evaluate and create agentic AI digital-backend workflows that improve automation and productivity.

• Support the establishment of engineering data environments and data warehouses that enable digital-backend agentic flows.

• Develop monolithic 3D place-and-route flows, improve QoR, evaluate partitioning algorithms, and convert design-space exploration into agentic workflows.

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Education – Actively pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, VLSI Design, Computer Engineering or related field through an accredited degree program during the time of internship.

• Must have at least an overall 3.0 GPA and be in good academic standing.

• Language Fluency - English (Written & Verbal)

• Must be willing to come on-site to the GlobalFoundries Santa Clara office.

• Ability to work at least 10 hours per week during the internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior related internship or co-op experience

• Demonstrated prior leadership experience in the workplace, school projects, competitions, etc.

• Strong interest in leveraging AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support effective decision-making.

• Project management skills, i.e., the ability to innovate and execute on solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong planning & organizational skills

• Solved challenges on competitive platforms suchas Kaggle or equivalent AI/ML competitions; proficiency in Python, Pandas, NumPy, SQL, and graph-search techniques.

• Experience with semiconductor design and automation; familiarity with Hugging Face, LangChain, Ollama, or related AI frameworks is a plus.

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Expected Salary Range

$20.00 - $40.00

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The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.