Sr. Director, Data Center Chipset PE - San Diego, California, United States of America

Originally posted 26 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

Plan and execute data center chipsets through all phases from concept to commercialization across cross-functional engineering teams. Focus on delivery of AI inference and CPU products powering high-performance, energy-efficient data center workloads.

What you'll do

- Influence and oversee chipset development, ensuring chips perform intended functions with associated software and firmware. - Oversee resolution of engineering issues on the chipset across subsystems, functions, and components. - Establish schedules, budgets, requirements, and KPIs including power, performance, and reliability from concept to commercialization. - Guide development of methodologies for verification of KPIs, providing technical oversight to teams conducting hardware, software, and systems-level testing and validation. - Set guidelines for technical documentation and feature descriptions while writing and reviewing detailed documentation. - Supervise engineering managers and develop budgets, schedules, and performance standards for the functional area.

What you'll need

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field with 10+ years of hardware, software, or systems engineering experience (or Master's degree with 9+ years, or PhD with 8+ years). - Experience leading product development cycles across hardware, software, test, and tools through commercialization. - Demonstrated background managing engineering schedules, requirements, and KPIs such as power, performance, and reliability. - Experience providing technical oversight for hardware, software, or systems-level verification and validation.

Nice to have

- Master's Degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. - 15 years of experience in semiconductor product development (system design, architecture, HW design and validation, SW development). - 5 years of experience balancing tradeoffs between product KPIs and costs. - 5 years of experience managing project costs. - 4 years of experience working in a large matrixed organization. - 3 years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership.

Skills: Data Center, chipset, KPIs, validation, commercialization