Director, Systems Engineering
$191,000 - $332,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 3 November 2026.
About the role
The Director, Systems Engineering will establish and lead a customer-facing systems and solutions engineering organization that translates customer product architectures into processor, mixed-signal IP, platform, software, and product roadmap requirements. This role focuses on customer product systems engineering across 32-bit MCU and 64-bit MPU product portfolios for the Custom Digital MCU/MPU business.
What you'll do
- Build and scale the Systems & Solutions Engineering team covering 32-bit MCU and 64-bit MPU product portfolios across multiple markets.
- Act as the primary technical interface to strategic customer engineering teams to analyze product architectures, competitive alternatives, and roadmap timing.
- Translate customer system requirements into processor, mixed-signal IP, safety/security, connectivity, software, package, and toolchain specifications.
- Develop market-specific solution narratives for SDV/zonal architectures, robotics, motor drive, industrial automation, and Edge AI.
- Partner with product management, silicon architecture, and software engineering to prioritize roadmap investments and derivative platform opportunities.
- Support major design-win pursuits through technical differentiation, architectural positioning, competitive analysis, and NRE/derivative framing.
What you'll need
- 15+ years of semiconductor, embedded processor, systems, applications engineering, product architecture, or customer solutions experience.
- Background in MCU/MPU products, embedded software, system architecture, customer product requirements, and hardware/software partitioning.
- Track record of directly engaging customer engineering teams and closing or supporting design wins, platform wins, or strategic engagements.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, mentoring, and scaling technical engineering teams.
- Proven ability to lead through influence across product management, sales, silicon architecture, software, and design engineering.
Nice to have
- 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.
- Established network with engineering decision-makers across automotive, industrial, robotics, or infrastructure verticals.
Skills: customer-facing systems team, product architectures, system-level requirements, design-win pursuits, embedded processor systems
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This role has been open 62 days — well below the 104-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
142
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Median days open
104 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$152k
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| Metric | GlobalFoundries | All employers we track in this specialty (142 roles · 22 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 142 |
| Median days open | 55 d | 104 d (−49 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: customer-facing systems team, product architectures, system-level requirements, design-win pursuits, embedded processor systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 36 open roles · median 75 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 138 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 21 open roles · median 90 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 32 d
- Renesas Electronics · 10 open roles · median 123 d
- Microchip Technology · 8 open roles · median 226 d
How we counted: 142 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) roles from 22 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.