Director, Systems Engineering

About the role

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.

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.

Required 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.

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.

Pay

Expected Salary Range: $191,000.00 – $332,000.00. The exact salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.