Hardware Engineering Architect, Server

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead the planning of system-level architecture for Server/AI platforms, which includes defining product configurations, functional partitioning, and aligning mechanical, thermal, power, and cooling feasibility.

• Drive the establishment of system requirements, interface specifications, and preliminary configuration options (such as GPU, accelerator, storage, and compute servers).

• Conduct architectural trade-off analyses to balance performance, cost, power, scalability, and manufacturability.

• Collaborate with electrical engineering, thermal, mechanical, BMC, and firmware architects to create a comprehensive product-level concept package.

• Work alongside Architecture and Business Unit teams to assess RFQ/RFI requirements and develop competitive architecture proposals.

• Define and recommend system topologies, mechanical footprints, airflow designs, I/O mappings, and cabling solutions.

• Interface with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment of design intent and value proposition during the concept phase.

• Present and document concept proposals that encompass block diagrams, design strategies, trade-off summaries, and risk evaluations.

• Stay informed about Open Compute (OCP), Computer Express Link (CXL), or Open BMC.

• Evaluate and incorporate technology enablers such as PCIe Gen5/6, high-efficiency power stages, and innovative materials.

• Participate in roadmap planning with Business Units and CTO to ensure platform reusability and alignment with future-generation technologies.

• Define interactions among electrical, mechanical, thermal, and firmware domains to support functional and performance objectives.

• Coordinate platform-level integration strategies, including motherboard placement, airflow optimization, and system serviceability.

• Align system-level DFM/EMC/thermal reliability requirements in the early phases and guide downstream teams with clear targets.

• Lead the development of architecture presentations, system requirements, platform-level block diagrams, and Bill of Materials-level feasibility plans.

• Drive both internal and customer-facing design reviews to ensure architecture alignment and requirement approvals.

• Maintain documentation for issue tracking and lessons learned to enhance future concept efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline (Master’s degree preferred).

• Over 15 years of experience in data center system/server architecture.

• Proven experience leading concept-phase architecture for AI and server products.

• Ability to research and investigate unfamiliar technologies and concepts with a focus on feasibility.

• Familiarity with Intel, AMD, Nvidia, or ARM CPU/GPU architectures.

• Understanding of PCB board materials and construction techniques.

• High-level comprehension of voltage regulators related to various VR architectures, trade-offs, efficiency, thermals, and critical VR components.

• Proficiency in using industry-standard ECAD tools to review layouts and schematics.

• Fluency in the mechanical, firmware, and software domains.

• Knowledge in the thermal domain.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment.

• Four weeks of paid parental leave.

• Eleven company-paid holidays (nine fixed holidays and two optional floating holidays), subject to annual changes.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Employee stock purchase plan.