Director, Roadmapping & Advanced Mfg

Strategic Technology Roadmapping & Market Intelligence

Trend & Ecosystem Analysis: Actively monitor global semiconductor, electronic manufacturing, packaging, and infrastructure trends to anticipate shifting paradigms (e.g., silicon photonics, advanced thermal management, high-density interconnections).

Customer Roadmap Alignment: Engage early with tier-1 silicon architects and hyperscaler customers to capture their 3-to-5-year hardware roadmaps, translating future system performance criteria into manufacturing process requirements.

Capability Gap Identification: Benchmark current internal manufacturing boundaries against future requirements to isolate technical gaps, yield risks, and capability shortfalls in the upcoming execution horizon.

Strategic Supplier Development & Sourcing

Ecosystem Engineering: In collaboration with Supply Chain teams Scout, evaluate, and develop global supplier networks capable of providing the cutting-edge tooling, automated solutions, materials, and processes required for upcoming product generations.

Supplier Technology Interventions: Collaborate with suppliers to co-develop or upgrade their internal capabilities, ensuring they hit critical-to-quality (CTQ) thresholds and scale capacities ahead of NPI timelines.

Front-End Interfacing

Partner with the Front-End Senior Manager to align supplier capabilities with advanced SMT requirements, focusing on complex substrates, large-form-factor BGA warpage management, fine-pitch placement, and optimized thermal reflow profiling.

Back-End Interfacing

Partner with the Back-End Senior Manager to qualify automated box build tooling, mechanical subsystem fixtures, liquid cooling integration setups, cable management and full-rack integration capabilities within the supplier network.

Test Engineering Interfacing

Partner with the Test Senior Manager to identify gaps in structural, functional, and system-level high-speed testing capabilities, co-developing automated test equipment and diagnostic capabilities.

Executive Leadership & Governance

Steering Committees: Chair internal technology steering committees to prioritize capital expenditure (CapEx) and engineering R&D investments based on the validated multi-year roadmap.

Phase-Gate Leadership: Lead comprehensive technology phase-exit reviews for raw materials, advanced components, and equipment platforms before passing ownership to standard NPI and manufacturing teams.

Mentorship & Culture: Build a rigorous, data-driven culture of technology scouting and value engineering, mentoring technical staff across the enterprise.

Compensation

Salary Range: $189,872-$297,014 Annually

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Compensation includes the Base Salary and the target Short-Term Incentive (STI)/ bonus.

A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Technical Breadth: Deep foundational understanding of the entire hardware stack, stretching from front-end advanced microelectronic packaging and SMT down to back-end mechanical enclosure assembly, robotic automation, fluid dynamics/cooling, rack-level power systems, and high-frequency functional testing methodologies.

Ecosystem Network: A robust, pre-existing professional network containing tier-1 hardware designers (e.g., Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell), system integrators, and critical manufacturing equipment/tooling vendors worldwide.

Executive Presence: Proven track record of presenting complex multi-year capital/technology strategies to C-level executives and external customer stakeholders with exceptional clarity, commercial acumen, and persuasion.

Typical Experience

12+ years of experience in high-tech hardware environments (e.g., Hyperscale infrastructure, Advanced Semiconductors, tier-1 EMS, or Datacenter systems), with at least 5 years in a dedicated strategic roadmapping, supplier development, or technology architecture leadership role.

Typical Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Materials Science, or a business-technical hybrid degree (e.g., Management of Technology) is highly preferred.