Director, Customer Systems & Solutions for MCU/MPU

Global Foundries; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 191,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries in Richardson, TX seeks a Director of Systems & Solutions Engineering to translate customer architectures into processor, IP, software, and product roadmap requirements. You will build a customer-facing team, drive design-win opportunities, and align sales, product, and engineering to market needs.

This leadership role requires deep embedded processor systems experience, capability to influence across multiple orgs, and a track record of scaling high-performing teams while

Qualifications

• 15+ years of semiconductor, embedded processor, systems, applications engineering, product architecture, or customer solutions experience.
• Strong background in MCU/MPU products, embedded software, system architecture, customer product requirements, and hardware/software partitioning.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with customer engineering organizations and influencing design decisions.
• Track record of closing or materially supporting design wins, platform wins, or strategic customer engagements.
• Ability to lead through influence across product management, sales, silicon architecture, software, and design engineering.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and scale high-performing technical teams.
• Excellent executive communication skills; able to simplify complex technical tradeoffs for business and customer audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Systems & Solutions Engineering team covering 32-bit MCU and 64-bit MPU product portfolios across multiple markets.
• Serve as first-line technical interface to strategic customer engineering teams; understand customer product architectures, pain points, roadmap timing.
• Translate customer system requirements into processor, mixed-signal IP, safety/security, connectivity, software, package, toolchain, and product roadmap requirements.
• Develop market-specific solution narratives for SDV/zonal, chassis and body control, robotics, motor drive, industrial automation, networking/infrastructure, e-mobility, 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, NRE/derivative framing, and executive customer engagement.
• Create reusable system collateral: reference architectures, competitive tear-downs, customer requirement matrices, software/hardware partitioning guides, and market playbooks.
• Build relationships with customer decision makers in engineering, architecture, platform, and advanced technology organizations.
• Establish operating rhythms between sales, product, architecture, design, software, and customer teams to ensure field learnings become roadmap action.

Skills

Semiconductor systems

Embedded processor systems

Hardware/software partitioning

Executive communication

Leadership across teams

Job description

GlobalFoundries in Richardson, TX seeks a Director of Systems & Solutions Engineering to translate customer architectures into processor, IP, software, and product roadmap requirements. You will build a customer-facing team, drive design-win opportunities, and align sales, product, and engineering to market needs.

This leadership role requires deep embedded processor systems experience, capability to influence across multiple orgs, and a track record of scaling high-performing teams while