Senior Principal System Architect — Custom Silicon

Global Foundries

Richardson (TX)

On-site

USD 171,000 - 296,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

GlobalFoundries seeks a Senior Principal System Architect to lead the definition, architecture, and technical strategy for cutting-edge semiconductor products from concept to production. You will translate market and customer needs into scalable system architectures and align hardware, software, silicon design, verification, and product engineering teams.

You will drive architecture tradeoffs, define system use cases, and own requirements management, collaborating with global teams to ensure

Qualifications

Proven track record defining and delivering complex semiconductor products from architecture through production.
Strong experience in system architecture for ASICs, SoCs, MCUs, networking, automotive, aerospace, or data infrastructure products.
Deep understanding of processor architectures, memory hierarchies, interconnect fabrics, security architectures, and system-level design methodologies.
Experience developing architecture specifications, requirements management frameworks, and performance models.
Strong knowledge of hardware/software co-design methodologies.
Experience working across Architecture, RTL Design, Verification, DFT, Physical Design, Software, Validation, and Product Engineering organizations.
Ability to perform complex system tradeoff analysis involving power, performance, area, cost, reliability, and schedule considerations.
Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated leadership of large cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end system architecture development for complex semiconductor products from concept through production.
Translate customer, market, and business requirements into complete system-level architectures and technical specifications.
Define product partitioning across hardware, software, firmware, security, and system management functions.
Develop architecture specifications including performance, power, area, cost, reliability, safety, and scalability requirements.
Drive processor, memory, interconnect, security, networking, storage, and peripheral subsystem architecture decisions.
Lead architecture tradeoff studies and recommend optimal solutions balancing performance, power, cost, schedule, and risk.
Define system use cases, workloads, operating modes, performance models, and validation criteria.
Own system-level requirements management, traceability, and architecture documentation.
Collaborate with customers, business teams, and engineering organizations to align product capabilities with market needs.
Drive IP strategy including internal IP reuse, third-party IP evaluation, selection, integration, and roadmap alignment.
Develop performance, power, bandwidth, latency, and capacity models to guide architecture decisions.
Partner with Design, Verification, DFT, Physical Design, Software, Product Engineering, and Validation teams to ensure architecture implementation success.
Lead technical reviews and architecture signoffs throughout the product lifecycle.
Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical decision-making across multiple programs.
Mentor architects and senior technical contributors across the organization.
Act as the primary technical interface for key customers, partners, and executive stakeholders on architecture-related topics.