[Hiring] Director Application Engineering @GlobalFoundries

Role Description

This leadership role offers the opportunity to shape the future of semiconductor innovation by leading GlobalFoundries' Field Application Engineering organization supporting some of the industry's most strategic customers. The successful candidate will build and develop a high-performing team of FAEs, driving technical engagement, customer success, and design win strategy across emerging markets including AI infrastructure, silicon photonics, advanced packaging, networking, mobile, and power technologies.

Serving as a critical link between customers, engineering, and business teams, this leader will influence technology roadmaps, accelerate revenue growth, remove technical barriers, and develop trusted executive-level relationships. The ideal candidate combines deep semiconductor expertise with proven people leadership, strategic thinking, and a passion for mentoring talent, while translating complex technical solutions into business outcomes that create long-term customer and company success.

Essential Responsibilities

• Help Shape the Future of Semiconductor Innovation
• Drive technical engagement and design win strategy across our most strategic U.S. accounts.
• Lead a team of Field Application Engineers responsible for helping customers solve complex challenges.
• Partner with some of the world's most innovative technology companies.

What You'll Do

• Lead and Inspire
  • Build, develop, and lead a world-class team of Field Application Engineers supporting GF's largest strategic accounts.
  • Create a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and customer obsession.
  • Coach and develop future technical leaders while raising the talent bar across the organization.
• Drive Growth
  • Partner with Account Managers to identify, qualify, and advance new business opportunities.
  • Lead the technical strategy behind design wins and major customer engagements.
  • Influence customer roadmaps and align GF's differentiated solutions to future market opportunities.
  • Translate customer requirements into business opportunities that drive growth and market share.
• Deliver Customer Success
  • Lead customer engagements from initial evaluation through tapeout, production ramp, and lifecycle support.
  • Anticipate and remove technical barriers that could impact customer success.
  • Drive disciplined opportunity management, forecasting, and design win execution.
• Build Strategic Relationships
  • Develop trusted partnerships with engineering, architecture, product, operations, and executive leaders.
  • Serve as a senior technical ambassador for GlobalFoundries.
  • Represent GF at key customer engagements, industry events, and executive briefings.

What Makes You Successful

• Think strategically and act with urgency.
• Uncover opportunities others miss.
• Build credibility across engineering and executive audiences.
• Translate complex technologies into compelling business outcomes.
• Lead through influence, collaboration, and accountability.
• Develop people, raise performance expectations, and create winning teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
• Experience leading customer-facing technical organizations.
• Deep understanding of semiconductor technologies, foundry ecosystems, design flows, and design-win processes.
• Proven success supporting strategic accounts.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and executive engagement skills.

Preferred Experience

• Silicon Photonics
• Advanced Packaging
• AI Infrastructure
• RF and Connectivity
• Power and Mixed Signal Technologies
• Hyperscale and Cloud Customers

Expected Salary Range

$163,000.00 - $264,000.00. The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.