AI Processor Hardware/Software Integration Engineer (2027 New College Graduate)

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Summary of Role

Launch your engineering career in hardware/software integration and validation of next-generation RISC-V CPUs and AI accelerators. Gain hands-on experience across hardware, software, AI workloads, and benchmarking while helping deliver high-quality Physical AI products.

Essential Responsibilities include

• Execute compliance tests, regressions, benchmarks, and AI workloads across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and hardware platforms.
• Reproduce, debug, document, and track failures using logs, traces, waveforms, and performance counters.
• Validate CPU, NPU, memory, interrupt, exception, and software execution features with guidance from senior engineers.
• Develop automation for test execution, result checking, reporting, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, verification, compiler, software, performance, and infrastructure teams to resolve issues.
• Document test procedures and findings, and communicate progress clearly across globally distributed teams.

Other Responsibilities

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

Required Qualifications

• Education - Graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field from an accredited degree program.
• Academic, internship, research, or project experience in computer architecture, embedded systems, software testing, or machine learning systems.
• Programming experience in Python and C or C++, plus basic Linux, Shell, and Git skills.
• Foundational knowledge of CPU architecture, memory systems, operating systems, and software development.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, learning, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have at least an overall 3.0 GPA and proven good academic standing.
• Language Fluency - English (Written & Verbal)

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 solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong planning & organizational skills
• Coursework or projects involving RISC-V or NPU systems.
• Familiarity with Assembly, instruction traces, waveforms, Linux, or low-level software.
• Exposure to ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLPerf, neural network quantization, or AI inference workloads.
• Participation in internships, capstone or open-source projects, engineering competitions, or laboratory research.

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Expected Salary Range $72,000.00 - $124,800.00

• The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
• An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.
• GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory.