Hardware Engineering Architect- Remote

Jabil is a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. They 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 scalable 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
• Drive internal and customer-facing design reviews for architecture alignment and requirement sign-off

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 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 PCB board materials and construction techniques
• 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
• Fluency in the mechanical, firmware, software and thermal domain
• Strategic thinker with system-level ownership mindset
• 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
• Familiarity with system-level architecture