Principal Electrical Architect - Server and Rack

Principal Electrical Architect - Server and Rack

In this position, the Principal Electrical Architect will be responsible for architecting Server and Rack level solutions for customers in the Cloud Computing and Hyperscale Industry. The role involves working directly with customers and core technology suppliers to understand and solve technical problems, providing technical leadership and guidance to internal Engineering, Management and Business teams.

What You Will Do

• Develop long‑term hyperscale server technology strategies based on technical and business footprints of the customer.

• Drive internal and external integration of system level engineering strategy.

• Forge long‑term technical relationships with the core technology ecosystem, creating a technical interface that feeds customer requirements into next‑generation designs.

• Identify and develop differentiation opportunities and drive thought leadership discussions among engineering, customers, business and management.

• Work directly with customers on concept and development of custom hyperscale server and rack designs.

• Determine solutions to performance/operational problems and deliver business value through zero‑touch hardware.

Competencies

• Innovates and develops intellectual property.

• Excellent communication, social, commercial and negotiation skills.

• Leads feasibility studies of system level concepts.

• Authors technical papers, presents at industry forums and participates in industry consortiums.

• Drives prototyping or proof of concepts of new technologies.

• System Architect – Server design.

• Experience developing server product architectures and carrying them through to production.

• Experience with server motherboard design.

• Experience with server chassis layout optimization.

• Experience with rack‑level and data‑center design implementation.

• System Architect – Power design.

• AC/DC power converter design, system/rack power budgeting and debug experience.

• Rack and data center level power infrastructure experience.

• SW/FW Architect – UEFI FW, BMC FW, OS/Drivers.

• Experience coding for AMI and/or OpenBMC based BMC FW.

• Experience with DMTF Redfish.

• Experience coding for UEFI FW (BIOS).

• Experience with industry security protocols, Root of Trust and design for security.

• Experience with operating systems and driver design/usage.

What You Bring

• BS in Electrical, CS or Mechanical Engineering and 12+ years of direct industry experience (or MS and 10+ years).

• Experience with high‑speed design, signal integrity issues, power distribution techniques and x86/ARM/GPU platform architectures.

• Experience with implementation of high‑speed serial buses and fabrics (SAS/SATA, PCIe, Infini Band, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, etc.), high‑speed memory buses (DDR4/DDR5, HBM) and processor/accelerator cache‑coherent links (CXL).

• Knowledge of server & rack architecture, system level design, board level design and overall server management.

• Strong knowledge of Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) functionality, telemetry and design for Security/RoT.

• Experience with new product development life cycle and driving cross‑functional efforts from concept to launch.

• Demonstrated ability to create detailed architecture specifications and drive business cases for new products and features.

• Strong understanding of network technologies and data‑center network topologies.

• Optional:
Working knowledge of server operating systems including Windows Server and Linux.

• Optional:

Experience with server virtualization solutions (VMware, Citrix or Hyper‑V).

• Optional:
Knowledge of software driver implementation, IP schemas and network protocols.

• Demonstrated ability to discover, learn and apply new technologies.

Compensation & Financial Security

• Competitive base salary.

• Performance‑based annual bonus eligibility.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with generous company match.

• Tuition reimbursement for eligible education programs.

Health & Wellness

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage with access to leading providers.

• Mental health resources and employee wellness support programs.

• Company‑paid life and disability insurance.

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