Distinghished Solutions Architect, Edge AI - San Jose, CA, United States
$273,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Distinguished Solutions Architect, Edge AI is an executive individual contributor role within Lattice's Architecture organization focused on driving product strategy for Edge AI solutions and translating complex customer challenges into technical narratives. The role defines value propositions across industrial automation, automotive, and adjacent embedded end markets, focusing on hardware security, motor control, PLC architectures, and machine vision applications.
What you'll do
- Define and own the technical solution narrative and product strategy across industrial automation, automotive, medical, measurement & test, and consumer/IoT markets. - Lead technical discovery sessions, requirements analysis, and solution design workshops with OEM architects to establish implementation strategies. - Partner with business development and sales teams to secure design wins at Tier-1 embedded OEMs through architecture-level expertise. - Identify technical trends in industrial security, functional safety, and embedded applications to capture new FPGA insertion opportunities. - Develop and present technical solution architectures for hardware security and root of trust in industrial and embedded systems against MCU-based incumbents. - Build technical relationships with OEM system architects, hardware security teams, and MCU ecosystem partners including NXP, STMicroelectronics, Renesas, and Infineon.
What you'll need
- BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline. - 12+ years of experience in industrial automation architecture, business development, or solution design. - Expertise in automation platforms, industrial networking, functional safety, security, and IIoT technologies. - Proven experience collaborating with OEMs, system integrators, and technology vendors on validation and deployment of automation solutions. - Track record of translating complex architectures into actionable business strategies and driving ecosystem adoption.
Nice to have
- Graduate degree in engineering, business administration, or a related field. - Experience in large-scale automation orchestration, robotics integration, or IIoT platform deployment. - Familiarity with PLC/CPLD/FPGA technologies in control, telemetry, safety, security, Industrial HMI, Edge AI, and Smart Sensor applications. - Published contributions to industry standards, specifications, or automation best practices.
Skills: industrial automation architectures, IIoT platforms, technical narratives and marketing strategies, go-to-market strategies, functional safety, design and develop architectures
This role has been open 89 days — well above the 53-day median for Product Marketing roles.
Product Marketing · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
65
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Lattice Semiconductor | All employers we track in this specialty (65 roles · 15 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 65 |
| Median days open | 89 d | 53 d (+36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: industrial automation architectures, IIoT platforms, technical narratives and marketing strategies, go-to-market strategies, functional safety, design and develop architectures
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 27 open roles · median 39 d
- Infineon Technologies · 9 open roles · median 59 d
- onsemi · 6 open roles · median 69 d
- Microchip Technology · 5 open roles · median 93 d
- AMD · 3 open roles · median 210 d
- Qualcomm · 3 open roles · median 91 d
How we counted: 65 open Product Marketing (Automotive IC) roles from 15 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 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.
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