Firmware Systems Architect (Information Technology)
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Job Family: General Design Services
Job Profile Title: Systems Architect
Location/Division Specific Information – Austin, TX
How will you make an impact? -
Firmware System Architects at Jabil collaborate with customers, sales and product planning to establish the technical direction for Jabil design teams in the Cloud, Compute and switching markets.
What will you do?-
As a Firmware System Architect, you will be expected to:
Demonstrate a level of expertise in a particular area that matches or exceeds the expertise of customers
Assess technical requirements
Determine competencies needed during quoting
Develop system architectures
Monitor the technical direction of designs during product development
Mentor others in the organization to build team members design capability
Advise on and discuss technology tradeoffs with customers, product planning and business development.
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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
BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) and BIOS feature management
Leverage, strategy and risk planning
Collaborate with fellow system architects in the electrical, thermal, BIOS, Validation, RAS, and OS domains
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, MCUs, etc…
Remain ready to architect to the latest industry trends including areas such as OpenBMC, DMTF, Open Compute (OCP) and others.
Deep dive into new open-ended areas by leveraging previous experiences 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 of Science Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering is required
Experience:
7+ years' experience in firmware design and engineering is required
Experience working with industry standards for IPMI, Redfish, MCTP, PLDM, SMBUS, i2c, i3c, SPI, etc.
Must also have extensive experience with Linux
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Capability to research and explore unfamiliar technologies and concepts with an eye towards feasibility.
Ability to translate customer requirements to falsifiable internal requirements.
Familiarity with the Intel, AMD, Nvidia or ARM CPU/GPU architectures. Specifically, an understanding of how the firmware stack operates and interacts with the core system components
Familiarity with Aspeed BMC products. Specifically, an understanding of the capabilities of the processor
High-level familiarity and understanding of BMC code architecture. Knowledge of OpenBMC strongly preferred. Knowledge of AMI (American Megatrends) MegaRAC is beneficial.
High level understanding of best coding practices and source control. Specifically, a understanding of C++, python, Javascript, HTML5, git, CI/CD and the agile development process.
Familiarity with Secure Boot, SPDM, Platform Root of Trust, DICE, and NIST 900-193 standards as well as cryptographic algorithms and protocols (PKI, Certificates, AES, HMAC, ECC)
Influence others and share best practices; Effectively communicate with excellent understanding of English; Work as part of a global team
Assess a project and articulate risk while developing project milestones
Mentor less experienced engineers
Lead BMC and BIOS Projects with multiple engineers assigned
Breakdown and articulate customer requirements to engineering line items
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with modern BIOS architecture preferred
Fluent in reading block diagrams and familiarity with system design preferred
Fluency in server management (provisioning, deployment, management, service) preferred
Annual compensation range:
157,200.00 - 220,100.00 - 282,900.00 USD -Target Bonus is 30% annually
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