Sr. Principal System Architect - OpenBMC Firmware

Jabil • Austin, TX

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About The Position

OpenBMC 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. 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, and mentor others in the organization to build team members' design capability.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of AMI (American Megatrends) MegaRAC is beneficial.
• Familiarity with Aspeed BMC products. Specifically, an understanding of the capabilities of the processor is preferred.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions.
• Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior