Vice President, Solutions R&D and PLM

Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As the Vice President for Solutions R&D and PLM, you own the end-to-end technical execution of the Solutions Business Unit across product lifecycle management, architecture, development, hardening, and customer enablement. You lead a global multi-site R&D organization translating roadmaps for data center, security, and hardware solutions into deliverable products.

What you'll do

• Own Solutions Product Lifecycle Management, including Cortex Product Line Management, silicon and firmware roadmaps, Market Requirements Documents, Product Requirements Documents, and Total Cost of Ownership modeling.
• Interface with Solutions Architecture on technical exploration with hyperscalers, ODMs, and OEMs while evaluating emerging standards such as DC-SCM, DC-MHS, Redfish, PLDM, and Security Protocol and Data Model.
• Drive Solutions Development delivery across data center and security initiatives, including Streaming Boot, PQC retrofit, plug-and-play, and rack leak detection programs.
• Oversee Solutions Qualification and Hardening spanning white box, black box, and system-level validation, establishing lab infrastructure, root cause analysis, and 8D reporting.
• Direct Board Development covering hardware design, layout, signal integrity, power integrity, and manufacturing enablement for physical products such as M.2 daughter cards and DC-SCM cards.
• Lead a global multi-site engineering organization across San Jose, Penang, Pune, and Shanghai, managing operational budgets, capital expenditures, and L1 through L3 technical enablement.

What you'll need

• Extensive executive leadership experience managing multi-site global R&D and product management organizations across hardware, firmware, and systems engineering.
• Demonstrated background driving end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management, Market Requirements Documents (MRDs), and Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for semiconductor solutions.
• Technical domain expertise in data center hardware platforms, security protocols, and standards such as DC-SCM, Redfish, PLDM, and Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM).
• Experience leading board-level hardware development, signal integrity, power integrity, and system-level qualification.
• Proven track record managing departmental operating budgets and capital expenditures while partnering with executive leadership.

Skills: Product Lifecycle Management, DC-SCM, PQC, Security Protocol and Data Model, PRD

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