Sr. Principal System Architect - OpenBMC Firmware (Austin, TX)

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OpenBMC Firmware System Architects at Jabil collaborates with customers, sales and product planning to establish the technical direction for Jabil design teams in the Cloud, Compute and switching markets.

As a Firmware System Architect, you will be expected to

• Demonstrate a level of expertise in OpenBMC and BMC in general 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

IN YOUR ROLE YOU WILL

• Advise 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
  • 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 for 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 engineering experiences
• Contribute to the improvement of our architecture methods and processes.
• Train, mentor, and coach new engineers

JOB QUALIFICATIONS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Capability to research and explore unfamiliar technologies and concepts with an eye towards feasibility is required
• Ability to translate customer requirements to measurable internal requirements.
• Expertise in OpenBMC architecture, codebase, repository structure and testing is required
• Knowledge of AMI (American Megatrends) MegaRAC is beneficial
• 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 is required
• Familiarity with Aspeed BMC products. Specifically, an understanding of the capabilities of the processor is preferred
• 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 is required
• Experience working with industry standards for IPMI, Redfish, MCTP, PLDM, SMBUS, i2c, i3c, SPI, etc. is required. Must also have extensive experience with Linux
• Familiarity with Secure Boot, SPDM, Platform Root of Trust, DICE, and NIST SP 800-193 standards as well as cryptographic algorithms and protocols (PKI, Certificates, AES, HMAC, ECC) is required
• 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) is preferred
• Familiar with Linux operation system, kernel, and application is required

NON-TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• 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 Projects with multiple engineers assigned
• Lead BIOS projects with multiple engineers assigned
• Breakdown and articulate customer requirements to engineering line items

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering required
• 15+ years' experience in firmware design and engineering

 

 

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