Principal Systems & Solutions Engineer

What You'll Do

• Engage customer engineering teams to understand product systems, architecture choices, workloads, software stacks, constraints, and roadmap needs.
• Translate customer needs into clear requirements for MCU/MPU products, processor subsystems, mixed-signal IP, software, safety/security, connectivity, and platform derivatives.
• Support design-win pursuits with architecture discussions, technical differentiation, competitive comparisons, and customer-specific solution positioning.
• Develop system-level collateral including block diagrams, requirements matrices, reference architectures, customer use-case notes, and competitive positioning material.
• Work with product management, silicon architecture, software, and design teams to validate feasibility and prioritize customer-driven roadmap inputs.
• Own selected vertical coverage such as automotive zonal/SDV, motor drive/robotics, industrial automation, Edge AI, networking/infrastructure, or e-mobility.
• Provide customer feedback loops to internal teams and help convert market insights into product decisions.
• Participate in customer workshops, technical reviews, architecture deep-dives, and executive design-win discussions as needed.
• Required Qualifications 10+ years of embedded systems, applications engineering, product systems, processor architecture support, customer solutions, or related semiconductor experience.
• Strong understanding of MCU/MPU product architectures, embedded software, hardware/software partitioning, and customer product requirements.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of: automotive electronics, industrial automation, robotics/motor control, networking/infrastructure, e-mobility, or Edge AI systems.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customer engineering teams and internal silicon/software/product teams.
• Experience creating technical collateral, competitive analysis, architecture recommendations, and requirements documentation.
• Comfortable working across hardware, software, safety/security, connectivity, and mixed-signal technology domains.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain tradeoffs clearly and crisply.
• Preferred Background / Target Talent Pools Systems, applications, field applications, solutions engineering, or product architecture experience at embedded processor, MCU/MPU, industrial, automotive, or networking semiconductor companies.
• Experience with real-time operating systems, embedded Linux, AUTOSAR, motor-control software, industrial protocols, TSN, CAN/CAN-FD/CAN-XL, Ethernet, HSM/security, or functional safety.
• Customer-facing experience with OEMs, Tier-1s, industrial automation companies, robotics/motion-control companies, or networking/infrastructure customers.
• Ability to travel for customer workshops and internal engineering reviews as required.
• We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity, efficiency and innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected, valued and heard.
• As an affirmative employer, all qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation and medical and/or physical abilities.
• All offers of employment with GlobalFoundries are conditioned upon the successful completion of background checks, medical screenings as applicable and subject to the respective local laws and regulations.
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