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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Systems & Solutions Engineering - **Company:** Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Salary:** $191,000.0 - $332,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR), Cyber Security, Linux on Embedded Systems, Embedded Software, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Toolchain, U-Boot - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/director-systems-engineering-globalfoundries-us-inc-9835345 ## About the Role * 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. 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. * Experience with functional safety, cybersecurity, secure boot/HSM, AUTOSAR or embedded Linux/RTOS ecosystems, and long-lifecycle industrial or automotive products. * Established credibility and network with engineering decision makers in one or more priority verticals. Success Measures * Systems team staffed and operating with clear vertical ownership and repeatable customer engagement process. * Customer requirements converted into prioritized roadmap inputs and derivative platform opportunities. * Improved technical win rate in strategic pursuits through earlier architecture engagement and sharper positioning. * Reusable market playbooks created for SDV/zonal, robotics/motor drive, industrial automation, networking/infrastructure, and Edge AI. * Deep engineering relationships established with target customers and ecosystem partners. ## Description Role mission: Build and lead a customer-facing systems and solutions engineering function that translates customer product architectures into processor, mixed-signal IP, platform, software, and product-roadmap requirements. This is customer product systems engineering, not internal silicon/IP development ownership. The Director, Systems & Solutions Engineering will establish and scale a new customer-facing systems team for the Custom Digital MCU/MPU business. The leader will work directly with customer engineering organizations to understand product architectures, identify system-level requirements, position GF/MIPS processor and design/IP capabilities, and translate learnings into actionable product roadmap needs for product management, silicon architecture, software, and engineering teams. The role requires a rare combination of customer credibility, embedded processor systems depth, hardware/software fluency, and commercial design-win orientation. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable with customer chief engineers, product executives, internal software, Hardware and IP engineering teams, sales leaders, and hands-on systems engineers. Essential 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, 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. * Establish operating rhythms between sales, product, architecture, design, software, and customer teams to ensure field learnings become roadmap action. 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