Principal Electrical Architect - Server and Rack

About The Role

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 responsibilities for this position include working directly with our customers and core technology suppliers to understand and solve technical problems facing the customer. In addition, the position will include 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 the concept and development of custom hyperscale server and rack designs.
• Determine how to solve performance/operational problems and deliver business value through ZT hardware.

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.

• 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.

• AC/DC power converter design.
• System/Rack power budgeting and debug experience.
• Rack and data center level power infrastructure experience.

• 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.

• BS in Electrical, CS, or Mechanical Engineering and 12+ years of direct industry experience (alternatively a 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.

• Typical base salary: $148,125–$246,875 per year (individual determination based on experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications).
• Bonus, paid time off, generous 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, wellbeing resources, and more.

ZT Group Int’l. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. ZT Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.