Deputy Director, Product Platforms - Richardson, Texas, United States of America

Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

The Deputy Director, Product Platforms will be the entrepreneurial product leader for a differentiated compute-platform portfolio. This role combines product vision, market insight, technical depth, customer leadership, ecosystem development, and commercial accountability.

What you'll do

• Define and own the multi-year platform vision, product strategy, roadmap, business plan, and investment priorities for the 12nm compute portfolio.
• Translate market trends and customer use cases into platform requirements spanning CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, coherent interconnect / NoC, accelerators, high-speed I/O, security, functional safety, package, power, software, tools, and reference systems.
• Lead cross-functional platform execution with architecture, silicon design, verification, physical design, DFT, package, test, validation, software, applications, operations, quality, finance, sales, and marketing.
• Drive the full launch process from concept and business approval through platform definition, development, pre-silicon enablement, sampling, production release, market launch, customer ramp, and post-launch optimization.
• Build the whole-product plan, including virtual platforms, FPGA prototypes, evaluation systems, SDKs, Linux / RTOS enablement, drivers, toolchains, and reference designs.
• Develop and manage an ecosystem of processor / IP providers, EDA partners, OS and middleware vendors, toolchain and debug partners, design services firms, board partners, distributors, and application-domain partners.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field.
• 8 years of semiconductor, embedded-computing, processor, SoC, platform, or closely related product experience.
• 5 years in product management, platform leadership, product marketing, applications, systems, or a comparable customer-facing technical leadership role.
• Strong background in 32-bit or 64-bit compute products, with 64-bit MPU, application-processor, edge-compute, infrastructure, or Linux-class product experience preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of SoC hardware and software, including prior hands-on or leadership involvement in silicon architecture, systems, applications, firmware, BSP / SDK, operating systems, drivers, validation, or product engineering.
• Proven record of successful semiconductor or embedded-platform launches, from market definition and requirements through customer adoption and production ramp.

Nice to have

• Experience with RISC-V, Arm, MIPS, or comparable processor architectures; multicore SoCs; MMUs and virtualization; coherent fabrics; cache / DDR subsystems; PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or other high-speed interfaces.
• Experience with Linux-class products and software enablement, including boot flow, firmware, drivers, SDKs, virtual platforms, FPGA prototyping, evaluation boards, and developer tooling.
• Exposure to AI / ML acceleration, vector processing, edge inference, networking offload, functional safety, cybersecurity, HSM / root of trust, or long-lifecycle industrial and automotive products.
• Experience managing process-node, foundry, package, test, yield, cost, supply, and lifecycle tradeoffs for semiconductor products.
• Experience with configurable platforms, product derivatives, custom silicon, customer IP integration, or platform reuse across multiple end markets.
• Established network across customers and ecosystem partners in edge compute, industrial, robotics, machine vision, infrastructure or automotive.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams and operating across engineering, field, partner, and executive communities.

Skills: platform vision, product strategy, roadmap, business plan, product requirements