Principal Systems & Solutions Engineer

Job Title

Principal Systems & Solutions Engineer

Role Summary

Customer-facing technical leader for the Custom Digital MCU/MPU business. Works with customer engineering teams to understand product architectures and translate system requirements into product and roadmap inputs.

Acts as a bridge between customers and internal product, architecture, silicon, and software teams to support design wins and prioritize customer-driven features.

Experience Level

Senior - typically 10+ years of relevant embedded systems, applications engineering, or semiconductor experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities focus on customer engagement, system architecture, and converting customer needs into validated product requirements and collateral.

• 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, and competitive comparisons.
• Develop system-level collateral: block diagrams, requirements matrices, reference architectures, and customer use-case notes.
• Collaborate with product management, silicon architecture, software, and design teams to validate feasibility and prioritize roadmap inputs.
• Own coverage of select verticals such as automotive zonal/SDV, motor drive/robotics, industrial automation, Edge AI, networking/infrastructure, or e-mobility.
• Provide customer feedback loops and participate in workshops, technical reviews, and executive design-win discussions.

Requirements

Key qualifications and skills. Must-have items listed first; preferred skills follow.

Must-have:

• 10+ years of embedded systems, applications engineering, product systems, processor architecture support, or related semiconductor experience.
• Strong understanding of MCU/MPU product architectures, embedded software, and hardware/software partitioning.
• Hands-on experience in one or more domains: automotive electronics, industrial automation, robotics/motor control, networking/infrastructure, e-mobility, or Edge AI.
• Proven ability to produce technical collateral, competitive analysis, architecture recommendations, and requirements documentation.
• Effective verbal and written communication with customer engineering teams and internal silicon/software/product teams.
• Comfort working across hardware, software, safety/security, connectivity, and mixed-signal domains.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with RTOS, 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, robotics/motion-control, or networking/infrastructure customers.
• Willingness to travel for customer workshops and internal engineering reviews as required.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: GlobalFoundries

Headquarters: Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

GlobalFoundries is a leading contract manufacturer for the global semiconductor industry, with facilities in multiple countries, including the USA. The company develops a broad portfolio of semiconductor technologies and employs around 13,000 people worldwide. GlobalFoundries focuses on enhancing competitiveness in specialized application solutions and fostering innovation in mobile communications, consumer electronics, and automotive applications.