System Architect

Company: Jabil Circuit
Location: Austin
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

Job Family:General Design ServicesJob Profile Title:Systems ArchitectLocation/Division Specific Information: - Austin Texas - Jabil Cloud and Enterprise InfrastructureHow will you make an impact?Do you have passion for enabling cloud customers to build and deploy platform infrastructure? Want to join a strategic CTO architecture team focused on developing and selling cloud hardware platforms and address a growing market? This role will function as an Electrical System Architect for defining technical strategy on Jabil's cloud server platforms working in the CTO organization. We are looking for a motivated senior Electrical/System Architect knowledgeable with server/storage platform architectures. As a System Architect, you will engage with internal and external customers, recommend technical strategy and direction, lead technical investigations, define product requirements, and work closely with teams across Jabil. You will be joining an exciting fast-paced team with entrepreneurial spirit, adapting and iterating quickly to meet evolving customer needs.What will you do?

• Demonstrate a level of expertise in System Architecture that matches or exceeds the expertise of customers
• Operate within the ambiguous and mailable problem space of front-end design
• Discuss Jabil design capabilities with customers and partners
• Determine competencies needed during quoting
• Advise on and discuss technology tradeoffs with customers, product planning and business development
• Establish technical direction for customer originated projects and Jabil's own cloud compute product offerings. Technical direction includes:
  • Alignment to product requirements documents.
  • Architectural tradeoffs on cost, complexity, and schedule.
  • Logical block diagrams, physical system partitioning.
  • Leveraging strategy and risk planning.
  • Collaborate with fellow system architects in the mechanical, thermal, firmware and software domains
  • Communicate status, direction, priorities and challenges in a high-level fashion with customers and executive management
  • Communicate technical direction to Jabil development teams through Jabil handoff documentation
  • Stay current on vendor technology capabilities in spaces such as CPUs, GPUs, Storage, Memory, FPGAs, board materials, regulators, power supplies etc.
  • Remain ready to architect to the latest industry trends including areas such as Open Compute (OCP), Computer Express Link (CXL) or Open BMC
  • Deep dive into new open-ended areas requiring experienced engineering
  • Contribute to the improvement of our architecture methods and processes
  • Train, mentor, and coach new engineersHow will you get here?Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field is requiredExperience:
      • Minimum of (10) plus years' experience required
      • Ability to use industry standard ECAD tools to review layouts and schematics is required
      • 3-5 years minimum of customer external/internal interaction is requiredKnowledge, Skills, Abilities:Technical:
        • Fluency in the mechanical, firmware and software domain. Specifically, an understanding of basics nomenclature, concepts and tools used by your architectural teammates.
        • Fluency in the thermal domain, specifically, an understanding of component cooling techniques, when components require cooling and what information your thermal engineering teammate needs during concept assessment.
        • Ability to research and explore unfamiliar technologies and concepts with an eye towards feasibility.
        • Familiarity with the Intel, AMD, Nvidia or ARM CPU/GPU architectures. Specifically, an understanding of how to optimize performance, IO, thermals, real-estate and/or power. Direct experience with at least some of the above is preferred.
        • Familiarity with PCB board materials and construction techniques. Specifically, an understanding of trade-offs and optimizations around insertion loss, via construction, stack-ups and sizing of power planes and shapes.
        • High-level understanding of voltage regulators related to types of VR architectures, trade-offs, efficiency, thermals, and critical VR components.
        • Ability to manipulate existing ECAD layouts and schematic databases for purposes of architectural planning and assessment preferred.
        • Experience coding, sizing, and planning FPGAs preferred but not required.Non-Technical:
          • Influence others and share best practices
          • Work as part of a global team
          • Assess a project and articulate risk while developing project milestones
          • Develop projects in a stage-gate process (PLCQ)
          • Mentoring and Lead of EE projects with multiple entry level/ mid-level engineers
          • Lead cross-functional and EE design reviewsPreferred Qualifications:
            • Master's degree in Engineering preferred
            • An equivalent combination of education, training or experience will be considered
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