Semiconductor Strategist

We are seeking a highly skilled Semiconductor Strategist to lead the strategic selection and development of semiconductors for use across the enterprise at General Motors. This individual will be instrumental in building strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, guiding electronics design, and ensuring optimal semiconductor selections for GM applications.

The selected individual will be expected to provide thought leadership, foster innovation, facilitate communication, and inspire passion. In addition, it is expected they will exhibit strong leadership behaviors, actively champion change, demonstrate a high level of intuition for business, strategically focus on addressing systemic issues, possess a high level of learning agility, ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity, tendency to expand the boundaries of innovation and not accept the status quo.

• Develop written specifications for components within the scope of responsibility, enabling semiconductor engineers to facilitate on-time sourcing activities in accordance with electronics development and vehicle program timing requirements.
• Drive semiconductor industry standardization and innovation to meet future architecture goals.
• Build partnerships and collaborate with electronics hardware/software engineering, purchasing, and suppliers to implement semiconductor strategic objectives.
• Establish use-case level domain-specific expertise for semiconductors used across the enterprise along with the planned ECU portfolio pipeline.
• Understand market semiconductor product portfolios, supply chains, and technology roadmaps.
• Provide technical coaching for the semiconductor engineering teams during the design, application selection, technical reviews, and sourcing phases.
• Spearhead SoC & memory selection and design applications around the selected components meeting GM design needs.

To be considered for this role, you must have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in hardware design and development.
• Understanding of SoC architecture, memory hierarchy, and ASIC design flow.
• Knowledge of SoC IPs (memory, analog, processor, interconnects, etc.).
• Experience with SoC silicon bring-up and Tier 1 level ECU hardware engineering.
• Experience with different memory types (DDR, NOR, NVM, UFS, etc.).
• Strong comprehension of hardware design requirements.
• Experience with circuit/schematic design and analysis, worst-case analysis calculations, DFMEA, and circuit simulation.
• Expertise in technical evaluations of semiconductor vendors and IP, and in assessing trade-offs to meet performance, power, and cost objectives.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting issues and validating hardware.
• Proficiency with lab equipment (power supplies, high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, logic/protocol analyzers).

Estimated salary: $160,000 - $200,000 per year, depending on location and experience.