Senior Director, AI NPD Platforms & Engineering Intelligence - San Jose, CA, United States
$216,775 - $390,195 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role defines, builds, and governs AI-enabled New Product Development (NPD) at onsemi. The leader will establish the vision, strategy, operating model, and governance framework for Agentic AI across the semiconductor design lifecycle, enabling AI-assisted and AI-driven development.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute the long-term strategy and roadmap for Agentic AI-enabled semiconductor product development.
- Lead the creation of an enterprise Agentic AI framework supporting analog, digital, verification, layout, test engineering, applications engineering, documentation, requirements, and program management agents.
- Establish company-wide governance for AI agents and engineering knowledge assets, including qualification, validation, release, version control, maintenance, retirement, and reuse.
- Define and drive deployment of AI-enabled methodologies across circuit design, architecture exploration, RTL development, verification, physical design, device characterization, design reviews, failure analysis, and documentation generation.
- Define AI governance policies for engineering workflows, establishing standards for model selection, training data usage, intellectual property protection, security, access controls, human-in-the-loop decision processes, validation requirements, auditability, and traceability.
- Establish KPI frameworks measuring NPD cycle time, design productivity, engineering efficiency, agent reuse rates, AI adoption, design quality improvements, verification coverage improvements, and IP creation velocity.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
- 15+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
- 10+ years of leadership experience in product development, EDA, design methodology, CAD, semiconductor software, or AI-enabled engineering environments.
- Deep understanding of semiconductor development workflows including Analog design, Digital design, Verification, Physical design, Design automation, and Semiconductor manufacturing flows.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional engineering organizations.
- Proven ability to influence executive leadership and drive organizational transformation.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field.
- Experience developing AI-enabled EDA tools, semiconductor design automation platforms, or Agentic AI systems.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Multi-Agent Architectures, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Workflow Orchestration Platforms, Reinforcement Learning, AI Copilots, and Knowledge Graphs.
- Background in organizational AI transformation programs.
Skills: agentic AI design engineering, semiconductor development workflows, AI agents, design automation, AI-enabled EDA tools
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 42-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · AI EDA Design
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Open roles in category
61
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Median days open
42 d
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Median salary
$193k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | onsemi | All employers we track in this specialty (61 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 61 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 9 | 1427 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 42 d (−41 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $193k |
Skills observed across this category: agentic AI design engineering, semiconductor development workflows, AI agents, design automation, AI-enabled EDA tools
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 12 open roles · median 49 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 7 open roles · median 22 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 21 d
- Keysight Technologies · 6 open roles · median 1 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 58 d
- Synopsys · 3 open roles · median 43 d
How we counted: 61 open EDA/CAD Engineering (AI EDA Design) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 1 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 — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.