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What You'll Do
- · Define and own the multi-year platform vision, product strategy, roadmap, business plan, and investment priorities for the 12nm compute portfolio. · Maintain an architecture and IP-reuse strategy that is anchored in 12nm but can extend to an adjacent process node when supported by market demand, customer requirements, performance / power / cost needs, supply strategy, or portfolio economics. · Translate market trends and customer use cases into platform requirements spanning CPU architecture, memory hierarchy, coherent interconnect / NoC, accelerators, high-speed I/O, security, functional safety, package, power, software, tools, and reference systems. · Create a coherent platform family and derivative strategy rather than isolated one-off products; define where configuration, customer IP integration, chiplets, companion devices, or custom derivatives create differentiated value. · Own product requirements, target specifications, competitive positioning, pricing strategy, business cases, lifecycle plans, and clear go / no-go recommendations. · Lead cross-functional platform execution with architecture, silicon design, verification, physical design, DFT, package, test, validation, software, applications, operations, quality, finance, sales, and marketing. · Drive the full launch process from concept and business approval through platform definition, development, pre-silicon enablement, sampling, production release, market launch, customer ramp, and post-launch optimization. · Build the whole-product plan, including virtual platforms, FPGA prototypes, evaluation systems, SDKs, Linux / RTOS enablement, drivers, toolchains, reference designs, documentation, training, and field collateral. · Develop and manage an ecosystem of processor / IP providers, EDA partners, OS and middleware vendors, toolchain and debug partners, design services firms, board partners, distributors, and application-domain partners. · Establish executive-level relationships with strategic customers and partners; lead discovery, roadmap alignment, product definition, commercial framing, design-win strategy, and escalation resolution. · Partner with sales and field teams to build the opportunity pipeline, segment target accounts, improve customer identification and win rate, and convert early engagements into design wins and production revenue. · Own platform KPIs, including roadmap execution, launch readiness, design wins, qualified pipeline, ecosystem readiness, customer adoption, gross margin, forecast accuracy, revenue growth, and return on investment. · Continuously assess competitive offerings, technology shifts, market inflections, and build / buy / partner choices; adjust the roadmap with speed and discipline. · Communicate a clear, credible platform narrative to executives, customers, partners, field teams, and engineering organizations, balancing vision with evidence and execution realism. · Commercial judgment: ability to balance NRE and customer specific developments with a platform reuse approach, derivative economics, margin, schedule, customer specificity, and long-term portfolio leverage.
- Other Responsibilities: Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
- Required Qualifications: · Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field; advanced technical or business degree is a plus. · 8+ years of semiconductor, embedded-computing, processor, SoC, platform, or closely related product experience, including 5+ years in product management, platform leadership, product marketing, applications, systems, or a comparable customer-facing technical leadership role. · Strong background in 32-bit or 64-bit compute products, with 64-bit MPU, application-processor, edge-compute, infrastructure, or Linux-class product experience strongly preferred. · Demonstrated understanding of SoC hardware and software, including prior hands-on or leadership involvement in both domains.
- Experience may include silicon architecture, systems, applications, firmware, BSP / SDK, operating systems, drivers, validation, or product engineering. · Proven record of successful semiconductor or embedded-platform launches, from market definition and requirements through customer adoption and production ramp. · Demonstrated product revenue growth, design-win creation, portfolio expansion, or turnaround results supported by concrete business metrics. · Experience creating or scaling a software, tools, IP, and partner ecosystem around a compute product or platform. · Strong customer and partner relationships, with the credibility to engage engineering leaders, product executives, architects, procurement, and business decision makers. · Ability to build rigorous market models, product P&Ls, pricing and margin frameworks, investment cases, forecast ranges, and measurable launch plans. · Excellent leadership and influence skills across matrixed organizations; able to align strong technical and commercial stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority. · Clear executive communication, strong judgment under uncertainty, high ownership, and willingness to move between strategy, detail, and customer execution.
Nice to Have
- · Experience with RISC-V, Arm, MIPS, or comparable processor architectures; multicore SoCs; MMUs and virtualization; coherent fabrics; cache / DDR subsystems; PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or other high-speed interfaces. · Experience with Linux-class products and software enablement, including boot flow, firmware, drivers, SDKs, virtual platforms, FPGA prototyping, evaluation boards, and developer tooling. · Exposure to AI / ML acceleration, vector processing, edge inference, networking offload, functional safety, cybersecurity, HSM / root of trust, or long-lifecycle industrial and automotive products. · Experience managing process-node, foundry, package, test, yield, cost, supply, and lifecycle tradeoffs for semiconductor products. · Experience with configurable platforms, product derivatives, custom silicon, customer IP integration, or platform reuse across multiple end markets. · Established network across customers and ecosystem partners in edge compute, industrial, robotics, machine vision, infrastructure or automotive. · Experience leading geographically distributed teams and operating across engineering, field, partner, and executive communities.
- Leadership Profile Visionary and market-back Connects technology inflections and customer pain points to a differentiated, investable platform roadmap.
- Self-motivated owner Creates momentum, closes gaps, and drives decisions without waiting for a fully defined playbook.
- Technical product leader Can challenge architects and software leaders while translating tradeoffs into customer and business outcomes.
- Commercially accountable Treats launch, adoption, margin, and revenue as core product responsibilities, not downstream sales tasks.
- Ecosystem builder Understands that processors win through software, tools, partners, reference systems, and developer confidence.
- Customer credible Builds trust through preparation, transparency, technical command, and reliable follow-through.
- Platform thinker Optimizes for reuse and scalable derivatives while recognizing when a strategic customer-specific investment is justified.
- Decisive and adaptable Makes evidence-based decisions with incomplete information, explicitly manages risk, and adjusts quickly as facts change.
- Success Measures · Clear, approved platform strategy and roadmap with explicit market, customer, product, software, ecosystem, financial, and process-node choices. · Launch milestones achieved with measurable readiness across silicon, software, tools, boards, documentation, field enablement, supply, and quality. · Priority customer opportunities converted into architecture engagements, design wins, and credible production-revenue paths. · Platform and derivative portfolio demonstrates disciplined reuse of IP, software, validation, infrastructure, and commercial investments. · Ecosystem gaps identified early and closed through internal development, licensing, co-development, or strategic partnerships. · Revenue, margin, design-win pipeline, product adoption, and portfolio return improve against agreed business targets. · Field, customer, partner, and engineering teams operate from one product narrative, one prioritized roadmap, and transparent decision gates.
- Preferred Target Talent Pools · Product or platform leaders from embedded processor, MPU, BMC, industri
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