Director, Customer Systems & Solutions (Embedded)

GlobalFoundries inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 191,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries in Austin is seeking a Director of Systems & Solutions Engineering to build and lead a customer-facing team that translates complex product architectures into roadmaps for processors, IP, software, and platform solutions.

The role requires deep embedded systems expertise, strong executive communication, and the ability to engage with customer engineers, product teams, and sales to drive design-wins and strategic roadmap alignment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of semiconductor, embedded processor, systems, applications engineering, product architecture, or customer solutions experience.
• Strong background in MCU/MPU products, embedded software, and system architecture.
• Proven ability to influence design decisions and close or support design wins with customers.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across product management, silicon architecture, software, and design engineering.
• Excellent executive communication skills; able to simplify complex tradeoffs for business and customer audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Systems & Solutions Engineering team covering MCU/MPU product portfolios across markets.
• Serve as the primary technical interface to strategic customer engineering teams; understand customer architectures, pain points, and roadmap timing.
• Translate customer system requirements into processor, mixed-signal IP, safety/security, connectivity, software, and product roadmap requirements.
• Develop market-specific solution narratives for automotive, industrial, robotics, networking, and Edge AI.
• Partner with product management and silicon/software engineering to prioritize roadmap investments and derivative platform opportunities.
• Support major design-win pursuits with technical differentiation, architecture positioning, competitive analysis, and executive customer engagement.
• Create reusable system collateral: reference architectures, competitive tear-downs, and market playbooks.
• Build relationships with customer decision makers in engineering, platform, and advanced technology organizations.
• Establish operating rhythms between sales, product, architecture, design, software, and customer teams to convert learnings into roadmap actions.

Skills

Executive leadership

Customer engagement

Embedded processor systems depth

Architecture & roadmap translation

Executive communication

Job description

GlobalFoundries in Austin is seeking a Director of Systems & Solutions Engineering to build and lead a customer-facing team that translates complex product architectures into roadmaps for processors, IP, software, and platform solutions.

The role requires deep embedded systems expertise, strong executive communication, and the ability to engage with customer engineers, product teams, and sales to drive design-wins and strategic roadmap alignment.