Hiring: Director, Systems Engineering Company: GlobalFoundries Location: Richardson, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 13:02:19 Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems, Foundry, Linux, Product Management, RTOS, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •15+ years of semiconductor, embedded processor, systems, applications engineering, product architecture, or customer solutions experience. Required Skills: •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, competitive alternatives, and 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. Qualifications: •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. •Demonstrated capacity 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. •Preferred Background / Target Talent Pools •Applications, systems, product architecture, or customer engineering leadership from Embedded Processor companies. •Customer-side systems architecture experience from automotive Tier-1s/OEMs, industrial automation, robotics, networking, or infrastructure companies. •Established credibility and network with engineering decision makers in one or more priority verticals. Compensation: •$191,000 - $332,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!