AI Software Engineer (2027 New College Graduate) - Santa Clara, California, United States of America
$72,000 - $141,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
GlobalFoundries is seeking an early-career AI Software Engineer to build, optimize, test, and deploy AI models within an AI platform. You will contribute across the AI inference software lifecycle and collaborate with software, machine learning, and hardware architecture teams.
What you'll do
- Integrate, deploy, test, and scale machine learning models, including large language, computer vision, and predictive models, within production-oriented AI pipelines. - Profile latency, memory usage, throughput, and computational footprint, and optimize AI inference workflows for edge devices or cloud infrastructure. - Design and implement maintainable software components and APIs while following team engineering practices. - Own technical documentation for engineering designs, experiment configurations, performance benchmarks, software interfaces, and API architectures. - Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
What you'll need
- Graduating with a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field from an accredited degree program. - Minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and proven good academic standing. - Experience with at least one major machine learning framework, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. - Strong object-oriented programming fundamentals and experience with software version control using GitLab, GitHub, or related tools. - English language fluency (written and verbal).
Nice to have
- Prior related internship or co-op experience. - Familiarity with low-level, high-performance programming, such as kernel optimization, systems programming, or hardware accelerators. - Exposure to cloud systems such as AWS, and participation in AI/ML hackathons, open-source projects, or university research labs.
Skills: PyTorch, TensorFlow, inference, edge devices, API architectures
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | GlobalFoundries | All employers we track in this specialty (998 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 18 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 48 | 6296 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 50 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: PyTorch, TensorFlow, inference, edge devices, API architectures
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 290 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 86 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.