Hardware Engineering Architect, Server

Jabil is a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. We are seeking an experienced Hardware Engineering Architect for Server/AI Products to lead architecture concept work during the early design phase, focusing on translating customer use cases into viable server architectures.

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

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
• 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
• 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
• Master's degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Direct experience with Intel, AMD, Nvidia or ARM CPU/GPU architectures
• Ability to manipulate existing ECAD layouts and schematic databases for purposes of architectural planning and assessment
• Experience coding, sizing, and planning FPGAs