Jabil Inc.
System Architect (Information Technology)
Job Family:
General Design Services
Job Profile Title:
Systems Architect
Location/Division Specific Information -–Austin Texas- Jabil Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure
How 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 engineers
How will you get here? -
Education:
Bachelor's degree, in Electrical Engineering or similar field is required
Experience:
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 required
Knowledge, 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 reviews
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in Engineering preferred
An equivalent combination of education, training or experience will be considered
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