System Architect, Electrical

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced System Architect for Server/AI Products to lead architecture concept work during the early design phase. This role focuses on translating customer use cases and technical trends into viable, scalable server architectures to support RFQ/RFI and new business engagements. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders (e.g., CTO, BU, Marketing) to define system-level strategy, high-level configurations, and functional requirements for next-generation server/AI platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead system-level architecture planning for Server/AI platforms, including product configuration definition, functional partitioning, and mechanical/thermal/power/cooling feasibility alignment.
• Drive the definition of system requirements, interface specifications, and early configuration options (e.g., GPU, accelerator, storage, and compute servers).
• Conduct architectural trade-off analysis balancing performance, cost, power, scalability, and manufacturability.
• Collaborate with EE, thermal, mechanical, BMC, and firmware architects to form a complete product-level concept package.
• Work with Architecture and BU teams to evaluate RFQ/RFI requirements and generate competitive architecture proposals.
• Define and propose system topologies, mechanical footprints, airflow design, I/O mappings, and cabling options.
• Interface with customers and internal stakeholders to align design intent and value proposition during the concept phase.
• Present and document concept proposals that include block diagrams, design strategy, trade-off summary, and risk evaluation.
• Stay up to date with Open Compute (OCP), Computer Express Link (CXL) or Open BMC.
• Evaluate and integrate technology enablers such as PCIe Gen5/6, 112G PAM4 SerDes, high-efficiency power stages, and new materials.
• Participate in roadmap planning with BU/CTO to ensure platform reusability and alignment with future-generation technologies.
• Define how electrical, mechanical, thermal, and firmware domains interact to support functional and performance goals.
• Coordinate platform-level integration strategies including MB placement, airflow optimization, and system serviceability.
• Align system-level DFM/EMC/thermal reliability requirements in early phase and guide downstream teams with clear targets.
• Lead the creation of architecture decks, system requirements, platform-level block diagrams, and BoM-level feasibility plans.
• Drive internal and customer-facing design reviews for architecture alignment and requirement sign-off.
• Maintain issue-tracking and lessons-learned documentation to improve future concept efficiency.
  
  

Technical Skills

• 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 use industry standard ECAD tools to review layouts and schematics is required.
• Ability to manipulate existing ECAD layouts and schematic databases for purposes of architectural planning and assessment preferred.
• Experience coding, sizing, and planning FPGAs, preferred.
• 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.
  
  

Desired Traits & Skills

• Strategic thinker with system-level ownership mindset
• Familiarity with system-level architecture
• Strong leadership and cross-functional coordination skills
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, cross-functional, global teams
• Proactive, self-driven, with high adaptability
• Clear technical communicator, able to present trade-offs and justify proposals
• Capable of NRE estimation and abstract requirement hardening
• Fluent in English; able to work with global teams and customers
  
  

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred)
• 15 years of experience in data center system/server architecture
• Demonstrated experience leading concept-phase architecture for AI/server products
  
  

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