Company / Job Reference: 260910/2
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Location: United States
On-site requirements: Hybrid / On-Site Engineering Environment
Industry: Semiconductor / Processor Technology / Advanced Computing
Compensation: $158,000–$213,000 Base Salary + Rewards
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Work directly with next-generation processor and SoC technology, pushing advanced silicon to its limits before it reaches large-scale customer deployments.
Join a highly technical engineering organization where your work directly influences silicon performance, power, reliability, and product readiness.
Gain hands-on exposure across both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation, combining low-level software development with sophisticated hardware debugging.
Competitive six-figure compensation with the opportunity to deepen expertise in Linux, Bare-Metal software, C/C++, ARM assembly, Python, PCIe, CXL, UCIe, and DDR technologies.
Post-Silicon Validation
Develop and execute system-level validation strategies designed to characterize complex processors and SoCs across demanding operating conditions.
Create stress workloads and validation environments using Linux and Bare-Metal software to exercise silicon at the system level.
Develop comprehensive test plans and implement validation methodologies for evaluating functionality, stability, performance, and reliability.
Collaborate with other validation engineers to expand test coverage and identify difficult hardware and system-level failure conditions.
Silicon Debug & Root-Cause Analysis
Investigate complex silicon, firmware, software, and system-level failures discovered during characterization and validation.
Perform detailed root-cause analysis using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, diagnostic software, and advanced hardware-debug techniques.
Analyze behavior across process, voltage, temperature, power, and performance conditions to identify silicon limitations and unexpected behavior.
Partner with engineering teams to reproduce issues, isolate failure mechanisms, and drive technical problems toward resolution.
Software & Test Development
Develop validation software, utilities, test workloads, and automation using C, C++, Python, scripting languages, and low-level assembly programming.
Build reusable test content capable of exercising processor, memory, interconnect, and system-level functionality under demanding workloads.
Apply software-engineering practices to improve validation efficiency, repeatability, automation, coverage, and overall test quality.
Continuously refine validation methodologies as new processor features, architectures, and silicon capabilities are introduced.
High-Speed Interfaces & System Validation
Validate and characterize sophisticated processor interfaces and system technologies including PCIe, CXL, UCIe, and DDR.
Evaluate system-level behavior and correlate engineering validation results with manufacturing and production test environments.
Investigate interactions between processor architecture, memory, interconnects, software workloads, power, and silicon operating conditions.
Support characterization activities designed to understand silicon margins and ensure dependable operation across intended use cases.
Cross-Functional Engineering
Collaborate with silicon, hardware, software, architecture, validation, and product engineering teams throughout the processor-development lifecycle.
Communicate technical findings clearly and provide actionable information that helps engineering teams resolve difficult silicon issues.
Evaluate multiple technical perspectives and use data-driven analysis to determine appropriate validation and debugging approaches.
Build productive engineering relationships centered on technical credibility, open communication, knowledge sharing, and successful product delivery.
Required Technical Background
Demonstrated experience with pre-silicon and/or post-silicon validation, preferably involving processors, SoCs, or other complex semiconductor products.
Strong software-development capabilities using C/C++, Python, scripting, and low-level programming, with assembly-language experience highly valuable.
Solid understanding of semiconductor process technology and its relationship to power, performance, voltage, temperature, and silicon behavior.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred Experience
Strong knowledge of PVT validation, silicon characterization, system-level stress testing, and processor performance analysis.
Experience validating or debugging PCIe, CXL, UCIe, DDR, memory subsystems, or high-speed interfaces.
Proven ability to diagnose difficult silicon issues using laboratory equipment and advanced hardware/software debugging techniques.
Experience correlating engineering validation results with manufacturing test data and identifying root causes across hardware/software boundaries.
Ideal Engineering Profile
Curious, hands-on engineer who enjoys investigating difficult problems and determining why complex silicon behaves differently than expected.
Comfortable moving between software development, hardware debugging, laboratory testing, data analysis, and system-level validation.
Strong organizational and time-management capabilities with the ability to prioritize multiple validation activities and technical investigations.
Collaborative communicator who values continuous improvement, technical innovation, knowledge sharing, and delivering dependable silicon products.
Company / Job Reference: 260910/1
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Location: United States
On-site requirements: Hybrid / Flexible Work Model
Industry: Semiconductor / AI Compute / Platform Software
Compensation: $205K-265K Base Salary + Rewards
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Help define the software strategy behind next-generation compute platforms, influencing technologies that will ultimately power mobile, consumer computing, and emerging AI applications.
Own a highly visible product area spanning Android, Linux, firmware, silicon platforms, operating systems, developer tooling, and the broader software ecosystem.
Work at the intersection of product strategy and deep technology, partnering with OEMs, semiconductor companies, software organizations, architects, and engineering leaders.
Join at the Director level having significant strategic influence, and the opportunity to build and scale a platform enablement organization.
Product & Platform Strategy
Define the product strategy for platform software, firmware, operating-system enablement, and reference environments supporting next-generation mobile and consumer compute technologies.
Translate technology roadmaps, customer requirements, and ecosystem needs into clear product priorities, software requirements, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
Determine how emerging technologies move from early engineering validation into stable, scalable, customer-ready software environments.
Balance short-term platform readiness with longer-term ecosystem adoption across multiple technologies, products, and release cycles.
Android, Linux & OS Enablement
Drive software readiness across Android, Linux, Windows, firmware, kernel-level components, and associated development and validation tooling.
Ensure new hardware capabilities are supported within the operating systems, software stacks, and release cycles that matter most to customers and partners.
Guide platform bring-up and feature validation across both pre-silicon and post-silicon development environments.
Identify readiness gaps involving kernels, frameworks, development tools, telemetry, performance monitoring, power management, compilers, and related system software.
Reference Platforms & Technology Validation
Establish the software approach for simulation, emulation, FPGA, prototype silicon, and reference platforms used to validate emerging technologies.
Position reference environments as effective vehicles for customer evaluation, feature demonstrations, software development, and ecosystem adoption.
Create traceability between architecture requirements, platform implementation, software validation, release readiness, and external adoption.
Develop an operating model that allows early internal validation and external ecosystem enablement to progress efficiently in parallel.
Customer & Ecosystem Leadership
Engage directly with OEMs, silicon partners, software organizations, and technology ecosystem partners to understand requirements and influence platform priorities.
Convert complex or ambiguous partner requirements into clearly defined product initiatives and actionable engineering deliverables.
Represent platform-software strategy and readiness during customer engagements, ecosystem discussions, roadmap planning, and executive-level reviews.
Build alignment around priorities, ownership, release expectations, technical dependencies, and measures of successful adoption.
Cross-Functional Product Leadership
Partner across architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, system software, product management, and other technical organizations to drive coordinated execution.
Lead prioritization and trade-off decisions involving competing features, platforms, engineering resources, customer requirements, and delivery timelines.
Establish clear ownership across teams while reducing execution gaps between technology development, software validation, and productization.
Communicate platform readiness, dependencies, risks, and strategic priorities effectively to senior technical and business leadership.
Organization & Team Leadership
Build and evolve a high-performing organization responsible for platform software, firmware enablement, reference systems, and ecosystem readiness.
Establish operating processes that improve accountability and coordination across geographically and functionally distributed technical teams.
Provide strategic direction while maintaining sufficient technical depth to effectively challenge assumptions and guide complex product decisions.
Develop a culture centered on customer outcomes, technical excellence, collaboration, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.
Required Background
Significant experience in software product management, platform software leadership, system software, or ecosystem enablement within a technically sophisticated environment.
Strong understanding of system software, firmware, platform bring-up, operating-system enablement, and the relationship between hardware and software product development.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical capabilities into customer value, product requirements, roadmap priorities, and executable engineering plans.
Strong customer-facing, partner-management, executive-communication, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
Preferred Technical Experience
Experience with ARM-based or comparable processor architectures, SoCs, semiconductor platforms, or low-level platform software.
Knowledge of Android upstreaming, Linux kernel enablement, firmware, performance tooling, telemetry, power measurement, compiler/toolchain integration, or related technologies.
Experience with pre-silicon and post-silicon platform bring-up, including simulation, emulation, FPGA, prototype, or reference-hardware environments.
Track record of moving prototype or early-stage technology into stable, maintainable, production-quality software used by customers or ecosystem partners.
Ideal Leadership Profile
Technically credible product leader who can operate comfortably with senior engineers, architects, customers, executives, and external technology partners.
Skilled at bringing structure to ambiguous technical challenges and converting long-term technology strategy into concrete product roadmaps.
Comfortable making difficult prioritization decisions across software features, platform dependencies, release schedules, and customer commitments.
Motivated by the opportunity to influence the future of AI compute, semiconductor platforms, Android/Linux ecosystems, and next-generation computing infrastructure.
Company / Job Reference: 260903/1
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Location: Richardson, TX
On-site requirements: Hybrid Field / Office-Based
Industry: Building Automation / HVAC Controls / Mission-Critical Facilities
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Comprehensive Benefits
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Build advanced automation systems supporting the rapidly expanding data center and mission-critical infrastructure market, with significant opportunities for technical development and career advancement.
Receive 100% employer-paid individual medical insurance, flexible PTO, employer-paid short- and long-term disability coverage, and a 401(k) with company match.
Work beyond traditional HVAC controls with exposure to DDC, PLC, SCADA, EPMS, OT networks, and complex third-party integrations.
Gain hands-on experience across the complete controls lifecycle—from application engineering and programming through startup, commissioning, troubleshooting, and system optimization.
BAS Programming & Applications Engineering
Develop DDC control programs including equipment sequences, alarms, schedules, trends, interlocks, and other application-specific logic.
Translate mechanical and electrical design requirements into functional automation programs for commercial and mission-critical building systems.
Configure controller databases, system navigation, operator interfaces, graphics, and reusable programming libraries.
Review control drawings, mechanical schedules, I/O requirements, and sequences of operation to ensure programming aligns with project intent.
Systems Integration & Networking
Integrate HVAC equipment and third-party systems using BACnet/IP, BACnet MS/TP, Modbus RTU/TCP, and other open communication protocols.
Configure device addressing, network parameters, routing, controller communication, and equipment bindings across connected building systems.
Interface with equipment including VFDs, chillers, boilers, AHUs, RTUs, meters, lighting controls, power-monitoring equipment, pumps, and cooling systems.
Support sophisticated automation architectures incorporating BAS, PLC, SCADA, EPMS, and networked control platforms.
Startup, Commissioning & Troubleshooting
Partner with field technicians during equipment startup, point-to-point checkout, functional performance testing, and system commissioning.
Diagnose controller, network, communication, integration, programming, and equipment-performance issues in active building environments.
Make field-level programming and control adjustments to improve HVAC operation, system reliability, and overall performance.
Validate completed applications against engineering requirements and resolve discrepancies discovered during commissioning.
Project & Engineering Collaboration
Work closely with controls engineers, project managers, technicians, and installation teams to translate design requirements into successful field execution.
Participate in technical reviews while contributing to programming standards, reusable templates, and controls-engineering best practices.
Maintain organized programming files, system backups, revision histories, release documentation, and accurate as-built information.
Help improve application-development processes and technical standards as projects and system complexity continue to scale.
Technical Background
Experience programming commercial Building Automation Systems using platforms such as Niagara, Delta Controls, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Honeywell, Automated Logic, Distech, or comparable technologies.
Strong working knowledge of HVAC equipment and sequences involving AHUs, VAV systems, chillers, boilers, RTUs, pumps, VFDs, and cooling towers.
Ability to interpret MEP drawings, controls diagrams, wiring schematics, equipment schedules, and written sequences of operation.
Strong technical troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose problems across software, controls hardware, networks, and mechanical systems.
Preferred Technical Experience
Experience with Delta Controls programming tools and relevant technical certifications is highly desirable.
Exposure to Allen-Bradley PLCs, Ignition, SCADA platforms, server environments, virtual machines, or operational technology networks is beneficial.
Associate or bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Controls, Automation, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
Previous controls experience supporting data centers, healthcare, pharmaceutical, laboratory, or other mission-critical environments is particularly valuable.
Benefits & Career Development
Employer covers 100% of the employee's individual medical insurance premium, with additional support available toward family coverage; dental and vision coverage are also offered.
Flexible PTO, employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance, and a 401(k) with employer matching following the eligibility period.
Hands-on technical training and advancement opportunities within the fast-growing data center, controls, and mission-critical automation markets.
Eligible field employees receive company-paid business travel expenses along with per diem, phone allowance, tools, PPE, paid training, and qualifying expense reimbursement.
Company / Job Reference: 260910/4
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Location: United States
On-site requirements: Hybrid
Industry: Semiconductor / CPU Architecture / Advanced Computing
Compensation: $244,000–$328,000 Base Salary + Rewards
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Help define the microarchitecture of next-generation high-performance CPUs, influencing processor technologies that could ultimately power millions of devices and advanced computing systems.
Operate at the intersection of CPU architecture, performance modeling, workload analysis, simulation, and hardware design, with direct influence over major architectural decisions.
Join an elite engineering environment where you can propose and evaluate entirely new microarchitectural concepts rather than simply optimizing an existing design.
Principal-level opportunity offering $244K–$328K base compensation, significant technical influence, and the opportunity to mentor highly accomplished CPU engineers.
CPU Microarchitecture & Innovation
Define and explore next-generation CPU microarchitectures designed to achieve industry-leading performance, power efficiency, and silicon-area utilization.
Develop and evaluate new architectural concepts using cycle-accurate simulation, functional modeling, workload analysis, and other performance-evaluation techniques.
Investigate architectural alternatives and quantify their potential impact on performance, power, complexity, and area before implementation.
Drive promising concepts from early exploration toward practical CPU designs in collaboration with architecture and implementation teams.
Performance Modeling & Analysis
Develop, enhance, and utilize sophisticated CPU performance models to evaluate proposed microarchitectural features and design alternatives.
Analyze complex workloads to identify performance bottlenecks, architectural sensitivities, and opportunities for substantial performance improvement.
Correlate simulation results, performance data, and modeling outputs to continuously improve model accuracy and engineering confidence.
Apply quantitative analysis to guide architectural trade-offs and help engineering teams make informed design decisions.
Performance, Power & Area Optimization
Evaluate CPU design decisions across the critical dimensions of performance, power, and area (PPA).
Identify architectural approaches capable of improving processor throughput and responsiveness without creating unacceptable power or silicon-area penalties.
Use modeling and workload characterization to understand how architectural changes behave across diverse computing environments.
Provide technically rigorous recommendations that influence long-term processor architecture and product direction.
Architecture-to-Implementation Collaboration
Partner closely with CPU architects, RTL/design engineers, performance engineers, software specialists, and verification teams to translate architectural concepts into implementable designs.
Work with implementation teams to ensure promising microarchitectural innovations maintain their intended performance characteristics as designs mature.
Investigate discrepancies between expected and observed behavior and determine whether adjustments are required in architecture, implementation, or performance models.
Communicate complex architectural concepts, analysis, and recommendations clearly to technical audiences across multiple engineering disciplines.
Workload & Ecosystem Analysis
Evaluate current and emerging software workloads to anticipate the performance requirements future processor architectures must address.
Engage with technology partners and other stakeholders to understand future computing requirements, workload characteristics, and performance expectations.
Translate workload observations and external requirements into actionable architectural opportunities and performance-analysis priorities.
Use ecosystem insights to help ensure future CPU designs address meaningful real-world computing demands.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
Serve as a senior technical authority in CPU microarchitecture, performance analysis, and architectural exploration.
Mentor engineers developing expertise in processor architecture, workload characterization, performance modeling, and simulation.
Contribute to improvements in engineering methodologies, modeling infrastructure, analysis tools, and architectural exploration workflows.
Influence technical direction through rigorous analysis, collaborative decision-making, and demonstrated expertise in high-performance processor design.
Required Technical Background
Approximately 15+ years of relevant experience in CPU or system microarchitecture, processor performance modeling, architectural exploration, or workload analysis.
Deep expertise in high-performance CPU microarchitecture and the architectural mechanisms that influence processor performance.
Strong understanding of performance, power, and area trade-offs with hands-on experience using cycle-accurate simulators and performance-modeling infrastructure.
Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical discipline, or equivalent advanced industry experience.
Preferred Experience
Demonstrated history of developing microarchitectural innovations from initial concept through analysis, design, and implementation.
Strong software-engineering and performance-analysis capabilities, including experience with languages such as C++, Python, and related development technologies.
Experience with performance profiling, workload characterization, simulator development, or advanced CPU modeling methodologies.
Previous interaction with customers, semiconductor partners, or technology ecosystem organizations to gather requirements and communicate architectural findings.
Ideal Engineering Profile
Accomplished CPU architect or performance engineer who enjoys exploring architectural possibilities and using quantitative evidence to determine which ideas deserve implementation.
Deeply analytical problem solver capable of reasoning across architecture, workloads, simulation, performance, power, and implementation constraints.
Technically influential communicator who can defend complex architectural recommendations while collaborating effectively with other highly experienced engineers.
Motivated by the opportunity to push CPU performance forward and help shape processor technologies that will influence computing platforms for years to come.
Company / Job Reference: 260906/3
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Location: Richardson, TX
On-site requirements: Hybrid Office / Field-Based with Project Site Support
Industry: Building Automation / Energy Management / HVAC Controls
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Take ownership of sophisticated building automation projects from engineering and programming through startup, commissioning, optimization, and final turnover.
Work with advanced BAS technologies including WebCTRL, Automated Logic Controls, Niagara/JACE, BACnet, Modbus, central utility plants, and complex mechanical systems.
Step into a senior technical position that combines hands-on controls engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, standards development, and project-level influence.
Solve challenging automation and energy-management problems while developing expertise in system optimization, analytics, advanced programming, and high-performance HVAC operations.
Senior Controls Engineering
Engineer complete building automation projects from initial design review through programming, commissioning support, documentation, and project closeout.
Interpret project specifications, equipment submittals, controls drawings, sequences of operation, and mechanical-system requirements.
Develop sophisticated control strategies for central plants, hydronic systems, AHUs, built-up systems, storage applications, and other complex HVAC equipment.
Create sequences of operation based on field conditions and translate mechanical requirements into reliable control logic.
BAS Programming & Integration
Develop advanced BAS programming, control logic, calculations, system relationships, alarms, trends, and equipment-management strategies.
Engineer third-party integrations utilizing BACnet, Modbus, and other building automation communication protocols.
Work extensively with WebCTRL/Automated Logic environments while supporting Niagara/JACE-based controls applications and integrations.
Develop customized BAS graphics including floor plans, equipment displays, system summaries, tables, gauges, and other operator interfaces.
Advanced Systems & Optimization
Engineer and manage multi-site BAS databases, hierarchical server environments, network architecture, NAT configurations, and system redundancy requirements.
Apply PID control principles and tune control loops to improve equipment stability, energy performance, and overall system operation.
Support central utility plant and chiller optimization while identifying opportunities for energy savings and improved equipment performance.
Work with advanced analytics, fault detection, reporting, DCIM, lighting controls, and other integrated building-management technologies.
Commissioning & Troubleshooting
Support and perform BAS startup, point-to-point verification, functional testing, logic simulation, troubleshooting, and system commissioning.
Partner with controls technicians, electricians, HVAC technicians, and other trades to resolve field conditions and integration challenges.
Perform comprehensive system and programming checks before deployment to help minimize field issues and commissioning delays.
Diagnose control logic, communication, equipment, database, and system-performance problems across complex automation environments.
Technical Leadership & Mentoring
Serve as a senior technical resource for engineers and field personnel while helping less-experienced team members strengthen their controls expertise.
Review engineering work for compliance with internal standards and contribute to the continued development of programming and engineering best practices.
Promote knowledge sharing by documenting lessons learned, communicating technical solutions, and helping teammates resolve challenging controls problems.
Provide leadership through accountability, organization, collaboration, professional communication, and consistent execution.
Project Execution & Collaboration
Coordinate engineering activities with project managers and field teams to maintain project schedules, priorities, budgets, and technical requirements.
Participate in project meetings, site walks, technical discussions, and planning sessions throughout the project lifecycle.
Maintain clear communication regarding engineering milestones, project risks, schedule changes, completion status, and technical issues.
Complete project closeout requirements including final documentation, system updates, lessons learned, and post-project performance reviews.
Technical Background
Advanced experience engineering and programming commercial Building Automation Systems, Energy Management Systems, or HVAC controls.
Strong knowledge of Automated Logic/WebCTRL or comparable BAS platforms, with Niagara/JACE experience highly valuable.
Advanced understanding of HVAC systems including AHUs, chilled-water and hot-water systems, central plants, control loops, and complex mechanical equipment.
Strong working knowledge of BACnet, Modbus, controls networking, system integration, BAS databases, graphics, programming, and commissioning.
Ideal Experience
Demonstrated ability to independently engineer complex BAS projects while serving as a technical resource to engineers, technicians, and project teams.
Experience with central utility plants, chiller optimization, energy-management strategies, analytics, fault detection, and advanced controls applications.
Proven ability to create control sequences, troubleshoot live systems, optimize PID loops, and develop complex BAS programming from field conditions.
Previous experience mentoring controls professionals, reviewing engineering work, improving technical standards, or contributing to engineering-team development.
Company / Job Reference: 260910/3
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Location: United States
On-site requirements: Customer-Facing / On-Site with International Travel
Industry: Semiconductor / Edge AI / Advanced Computing
Compensation: $259,000 - $348,000 Base Salary + Rewards
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for helping major technology customers successfully bring next-generation SoC and Edge AI products from prototype through volume production.
Operate at the intersection of semiconductor technology, AI-enabled devices, hardware, software, systems integration, and advanced manufacturing.
Serve as a trusted technical partner to senior customer engineering leaders while gaining significant visibility with internal engineering and executive leadership.
Influence future technology and product roadmaps by bringing real-world customer requirements, integration challenges, and deployment insights directly back into engineering.
Customer Engineering Leadership
Serve as the primary technical interface for strategic customers, developing trusted relationships with senior engineers, technical leaders, and product organizations.
Guide customers through complex product-development challenges spanning early prototypes, system integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and production ramp.
Establish clear technical priorities and maintain consistent communication regarding project status, risks, dependencies, and critical engineering issues.
Represent the engineering organization during high-level customer discussions while ensuring technical commitments remain aligned with product capabilities.
SoC & Systems Engineering
Apply deep system-level knowledge of complex SoC-based platforms to diagnose and resolve challenging product-development and integration issues.
Lead investigations involving hardware, embedded software, firmware, system integration, performance, manufacturing, and platform-level behavior.
Work across engineering disciplines to isolate root causes and coordinate solutions to technically complex and time-sensitive customer problems.
Support product implementation from initial development through production deployment, ensuring technologies operate successfully in real-world customer environments.
Edge AI & Advanced Computing
Support deployment of advanced platforms designed for Edge AI, embedded computing, low-power applications, and intelligent consumer devices.
Help customers navigate the technical challenges associated with integrating advanced processor and semiconductor technologies into production products.
Apply system-level thinking across compute architecture, hardware, software, power, performance, integration, and deployment requirements.
Use customer implementation experience to identify opportunities for improved product capabilities and future technology development.
Engineering Team Leadership
Build, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary customer engineering team capable of solving difficult technical challenges in demanding customer environments.
Coach engineers on technical problem solving, customer engagement, communication, prioritization, and professional development.
Create an environment that encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
Maximize team effectiveness by aligning engineering resources and expertise with the highest-priority customer and product challenges.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
Coordinate closely with architecture, silicon, hardware, software, product, manufacturing, and other engineering organizations to resolve customer issues.
Mobilize appropriate technical resources when challenges span multiple engineering disciplines or organizational boundaries.
Translate complex engineering findings into concise, technically grounded updates for senior management and executive stakeholders.
Maintain strong alignment between customer priorities, internal engineering activities, product-development objectives, and delivery timelines.
Product & Roadmap Influence
Capture customer feedback and field-level engineering insights to identify emerging requirements, technical gaps, and opportunities for product improvement.
Translate real-world implementation challenges into actionable information for product, architecture, and engineering organizations.
Influence future technology roadmaps by providing visibility into how customers are deploying and integrating advanced SoC technologies.
Help bridge the gap between internal technology development and the practical requirements of large-scale customer product deployment.
Required Technical Background
Significant experience in a senior customer-facing engineering, systems engineering, semiconductor, or technical leadership position.
Deep understanding of complex SoC-based products, including the interaction between hardware, software, firmware, integration, and manufacturing.
Demonstrated ability to lead resolution of difficult system-level engineering problems in customer-facing or production environments.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
Preferred Experience
Experience within the semiconductor, processor architecture, silicon IP, or advanced computing ecosystem.
Technical background involving embedded systems, low-power computing, Edge AI, AI-enabled consumer devices, or related technologies.
Experience supporting products through prototype, validation, manufacturing, production ramp, and high-volume deployment.
Experience collaborating with international engineering and manufacturing organizations, particularly within Asia-based technology ecosystems.
Ideal Leadership Profile
Technically accomplished engineering leader who is equally comfortable working with senior customers, hands-on engineers, and executive leadership.
Strong communicator capable of bringing structure and urgency to ambiguous, highly technical, and time-sensitive customer challenges.
Collaborative leader who develops engineers while maintaining a relentless focus on customer success and successful product execution.
Comfortable with significant customer-site engagement, Bay Area travel, and international travel as required to support critical programs.
Company / Job Reference: 260902/1
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Location: Plano, TX / Houston, TX
Field-Based / On-Site
Industry: Commercial HVAC / Mechanical Services
Compensation: Competitive Base Salary + Performance-Based Incentive
Position Overview
Lead regional sales growth across the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets for an established commercial HVAC and mechanical services organization.
Serve as a hands-on sales leader who combines team leadership with direct involvement in strategic accounts, new business development, and major opportunities.
Drive profitable revenue growth by strengthening sales execution, expanding customer relationships, and maintaining disciplined opportunity management.
Build a performance-oriented sales culture focused on accountability, customer service, market penetration, and sustainable margin growth.
Sales Leadership & Strategy
Develop and execute regional sales plans designed to increase revenue, booked margin, market share, and customer penetration.
Lead, coach, and develop sales professionals through regular performance discussions, pipeline reviews, goal setting, and individual development.
Evaluate market activity, competitive conditions, customer demand, and territory opportunities to guide sales priorities.
Identify team development needs and implement targeted coaching, training, and performance improvement initiatives.
Business Development & Key Accounts
Personally develop and close significant commercial HVAC, mechanical service, and project opportunities throughout the assigned markets.
Build relationships with key commercial customers while identifying opportunities to expand services and increase account penetration.
Grow recurring revenue by identifying service opportunities and converting ongoing customer needs into Preventative Maintenance agreements.
Qualify prospective projects based on revenue potential, profitability, customer fit, competitive position, and execution risk.
Pipeline & Sales Performance
Establish strong CRM and pipeline-management practices to create visibility into opportunities, activity levels, sales stages, and expected close dates.
Conduct regular pipeline reviews and use sales data to improve forecasting accuracy and identify opportunities requiring additional attention.
Monitor key performance indicators including close rates, average project value, service sales activity, booked revenue, and gross margin.
Improve sales processes and accountability to create consistent execution and predictable monthly and quarterly results.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner closely with Operations, Finance, Human Resources, and other internal teams to ensure sales commitments align with operational capabilities.
Maintain focus on project profitability and margin throughout the sales process while balancing customer expectations and organizational resources.
Promote effective communication between sales and operational teams to support smooth project transitions and successful customer delivery.
Represent the organization professionally and ethically with customers, employees, industry partners, and other stakeholders.
Required Background
5–7+ years of successful sales experience within commercial HVAC, mechanical services, building systems, or a closely related industry.
Demonstrated ability to sell both service-based solutions and commercial projects while understanding pricing, gross margin, financial contribution, and project risk.
Strong relationship-building, negotiation, communication, and consultative selling capabilities with commercial and technical customers.
Experience using CRM platforms such as Salesforce along with Microsoft Office and sales-performance reporting tools.
Preferred Experience
7–10 years of progressive commercial HVACR, mechanical, or MEP sales experience with demonstrated leadership responsibilities.
Experience managing, coaching, or developing sales professionals while remaining personally involved in major accounts and strategic opportunities.
Established understanding of commercial HVAC service agreements, preventative maintenance programs, mechanical projects, and recurring service revenue.
Track record of growing a territory, improving sales-team performance, protecting margins, and consistently achieving ambitious revenue targets.