Director, System Engineering & Integration

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Position Overview

The Director of System Engineering & Integration leads the definition, architecture, and execution of end-to-end system integration across silicon, hardware, firmware, network and software for complex emulator platforms.

This role owns the integration strategy, system bring-up, and verification required to deliver production-ready systems, while driving alignment across globally distributed, cross-functional teams.

Leadership & Organizational Excellence

• Build and lead global engineering teams responsible for system integration and validation.
• Drive execution excellence, organizational scaling, and talent development.
• Foster strong collaboration across hardware, firmware, software, ASIC, and operations teams.

• Define the system integration architecture and technical strategy across ASIC, hardware, firmware, FPGA, and system software.
• Establish design-for-integration principles, interface contracts, and integration readiness criteria.
• Guide cross-functional technical decisions across interconnects, embedded systems, and system infrastructure.

• Own end-to-end integration and bring-up of multi-subsystem platforms.
• Define and drive system-level validation and verification strategies, including performance and stress testing.
• Lead resolution of complex cross-layer issues across hardware and software.

• Establish scalable validation infrastructure, automation frameworks, and test environments.
• Drive standardization and reuse of system-level test methodologies.

• Own system readiness from bring-up to production release, ensuring performance and reliability targets.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to ensure predictable delivery.

• Deep expertise in system engineering across silicon, hardware, firmware, drivers, OS and software.
• Experience in integrating and delivering complex multi-interface systems.
• Knowledge of large computing rack system architecture.
• Proven system-level debugging capability and complex system issue root cause resolutions.
• Experience leading global, cross-functional engineering teams.
• Deep experience with interconnect technologies like Ethernet, RoCE / UEC, DDRx, PCIe.

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fieldwith a minimum of 12 years of experience OR MS with a minimum of 10 years of experience OR PhD with a minimum of 8 years of experience
• Masters / advanced degree in related field preferred.

• Communication infrastructures such as PCIe, Infiniband, and distributed Ethernet network setups.
• Distro-independent full spectrum of Linux in kernel space and user space in both server and embedded system, including system administration.
• Distributed computing with high-availability and scalability.
• System virtualization and containerization and real-world applications.