Principal Mechanical Engineering Architect - Server & Rack Solutions

About The Role

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

• Develop long‑term hyperscale server technology strategies based on the technical and business footprint of the customer.
• Drive internal and external integration of system level engineering strategy.
• Develop long‑term technical relationships with the core technology ecosystem, creating a technical interface that drives 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 how to solve performance/operational problems and deliver business value through ZT hardware.
• System Architecture – Server design; experience in developing server product architectures and carrying through to production; experience with server motherboard design; experience with server chassis layout optimization; experience with rack‑level and data‑center design implementation.
• System Architecture – Power design; AC/DC power converter design, system/rack power budgeting and debug experience; rack and data center level power infrastructure experience.
• Software/Firmware Architecture – UEFI FW, BMC FW, OS/Drivers; experience coding for AMI/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.

• Innovates and develops intellectual property.
• Excellent communication, social, commercial and negotiation skills.
• Leadership of feasibility studies of system level concepts.
• Author technical papers, present at industry forums and participate in industry consortiums.
• Drive prototyping or proof of concepts of new technologies.

• 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 busses (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 the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) functionality, telemetry, and design for Security/RoT.
• Experience with new product development life cycle and driving cross‑functional development efforts from concept to planning to development.
• Demonstrated ability to create detailed architecture specifications and drive business cases for new products and features.
• Strong understanding of network technologies and datacenter network topologies.
• Optional:
  Working knowledge of server operating systems including Windows Server and Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE).
• 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.

The typical base salary for this position is expected to be between $148,125 and $246,875 per year. Base salary is one component of total rewards, with additional benefits such as bonus, paid time off, 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, wellbeing resources, and more.

• Competitive base salary
• Performance‑based annual bonus eligibility
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Tuition reimbursement for eligible education programs
• Comprehensive medical,…