AI Platform Director - Silicon Design & ML Systems

MIPS Holding Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Director of Software Development to lead an AI-driven silicon-design platform, guiding architecture from NLP to multi-modal deployments and retrieval-augmented systems. You will partner with design, verification, and performance teams to deliver customer-facing software.

You will build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, establish MLOps practices, ensure security and performance, and report progress to executive leadership and key

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
• Experience delivering AI/ML-driven platforms in production.
• Strong fluency with Python and ML frameworks to guide architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year roadmap for an AI-driven silicon design platform.
• Lead and scale an engineering organization of managers and engineers.
• Drive platform architecture decisions for scalability, security, and performance across GPUs, cloud, and containers.
• Establish and govern MLOps standards and model lifecycle management.
• Communicate strategy and risk to executives and customers.

Skills

Python

ML Frameworks

AI Platform Concepts

LLM Strategy

Executive Communication

Git Workflows

Containerization

MLOps

Cloud Architectures

Vector Databases

Education

Master’s or PhD in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

18+ years experience in Software Engineering

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

OpenAI / Anthropic / Hugging Face

Job description

GlobalFoundries in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Director of Software Development to lead an AI-driven silicon-design platform, guiding architecture from NLP to multi-modal deployments and retrieval-augmented systems. You will partner with design, verification, and performance teams to deliver customer-facing software.

You will build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, establish MLOps practices, ensure security and performance, and report progress to executive leadership and key