Principal CI/CD Engineer
About The Position
GlobalFoundries is seeking a highly experienced Senior/Principal Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Engineer to lead the strategy, design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise-scale software delivery infrastructure for complex artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hardware-software co-development environments. The role supports globally distributed software development teams and works with software, hardware, verification, validation, and infrastructure teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. The engineer will build and maintain automated software delivery infrastructure, including pipelines, containerized build environments, compute resources, and monitoring. The role also includes supporting Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs, and performing other duties as assigned by the manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- 5–10 years of experience in CI/CD, automation, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering, including a key role establishing and maintaining infrastructure for software products.
- Strong hands-on experience building reliable, scalable CI/CD pipelines and software distributions using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and JFrog Artifactory.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Shell, Python, and Groovy.
- Demonstrated experience with source-code management practices and branching strategies for complex development and release workflows.
- Experience creating, deploying, and managing applications and build environments in containers, such as Podman.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools, such as Grafana.
- Experience with Linux compute clusters or grid schedulers, such as SGE/UGE, SLURM, or LSF.
- Experience supporting both Linux and Windows software development environments.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- Experience integrating CI/CD systems with emulation, simulation, embedded hardware, or hardware-in-the-loop validation environments.
- Familiarity with at least one machine learning framework or model format, such as ONNX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools, such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor, to improve development productivity.
- Experience leading infrastructure modernization or automation initiatives across globally distributed, cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication, planning, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify scalable solutions, and drive execution across technical and organizational boundaries.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end CI/CD strategy and automation execution for globally distributed software development teams.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable automated build, test, release, and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and JFrog Artifactory.
- Configure CI/CD workflows that interface with emulation, simulation, embedded hardware, and hardware-software validation platforms.
- Define, implement, enforce, and maintain source-code branching and release strategies for complex product release cycles.
- Develop and maintain containerized, reproducible build environments and test-runner workloads using technologies such as Podman.
- Partner with IT to configure, secure, monitor, and maintain Linux and Windows compute servers, compute grids, and shared storage environments, including NFS and CIFS.
- Build Grafana dashboards, metrics, and alerts to monitor pipeline health, runner performance, infrastructure utilization, and service reliability.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, verification, validation, and infrastructure teams across North America, Europe, and Asia to modernize build and delivery capabilities.
- Perform all activities safely and responsibly and support Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the manager.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
