Thermal Imaging Platform Architect

2401 E 86th St, Bloomington, MN 55425, USA

Posted Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Bold Thinking. World Changing. At Sky Water, our ingenuity helps improve lives around the world by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors that are essential ingredients of modern life. Automotive safety enhancements, life-saving medical devices, consumer electronics and American security require semiconductors. Working in our Minnesota headquarters, Florida, or Texas location — employees join together to improve the world.

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Our customers include emerging leaders who rely on our intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services.

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Position Summary:

The Thermal Imaging Technology Platform Architect is an enterprise technical leader responsible for connecting customer system requirements, market opportunities, and technology platform capabilities in thermal imaging. Blending deep engineering expertise with business strategy, this role serves as the primary technical interface for customers and ecosystem partners during opportunity development, technology definition, and platform adoption activities. Working closely with Business Unit leadership, Platform Managers, Sales, and Technology Development teams, the Technology Platform Architect translates customer and market requirements into actionable development priorities and solutions.

The role combines technical leadership, customer engagement, and market insight to ensure Sky Water technologies remain aligned with evolving customer needs and emerging market opportunities. This opportunity can be a remote or hybrid position.

Major Areas of Accountability :

• Lead technical discoveries with customers and ecosystem partners and assess solution fit.
• Define solution architectures and translate requirements into scopes of work.
• Drive internal scoping, prioritization, and opportunity reviews .
• Lead enterprise-level customer system understanding and technology tradeoffs across the entire Thermal Imaging platform .
• Support platform strategy with customer and market insights.
• Produce technical content and reference architecture for sales, marketing, and onboarding including white papers and conference presentations .
• Serve as the primary technical interface from concept to project kickoff
• Demonstrate Sky Water capabilities, support key customer technical issue resolution s , and advance opportunities
• Build strong customer relationships to position Sky Water as a trusted partner.
• Collaborate with sales, engineering, and business teams to align solutions.
• Lead creation of proposals and SOWs aligned with customer and business goals.

Required Qualifications:

• Education:
  
  BS required in Engineering, Physics or Material Science.
• 8-12 years plus of progressive experience in…