Jabil

Sr. Principal System Architect - OpenBMC Firmware

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2 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Establish technical direction and develop system architectures for OpenBMC firmware, BMC, BIOS, cloud, compute, and switching projects.
  • Assess customer and product requirements, translate them into measurable engineering requirements, and determine needed competencies during quoting.
  • Advise customers, product planning, business development, and engineering teams on technology tradeoffs, cost, complexity, schedule, risk, and feasibility.
  • Monitor technical direction throughout product development and communicate architecture decisions through handoff documentation.
  • Collaborate with electrical, thermal, BIOS, validation, RAS, and OS system architects.
  • Stay current with CPU, GPU, storage, memory, FPGA, MCU, OpenBMC, DMTF, and Open Compute technologies.
  • Lead BMC and BIOS projects with multiple engineers and mentor, train, and coach engineers.
  • Contribute to architecture methods, processes, project milestones, and technical risk planning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, or electrical engineering is required.
  • 15+ years of experience in firmware design and engineering is required.
  • Expertise in OpenBMC architecture, codebase, repository structure, and testing is required.
  • Experience with BMC firmware, Linux, firmware stacks, server management, and industry standards including IPMI, Redfish, MCTP, PLDM, SMBUS, I2C, and I3C is required.
  • Knowledge of C++, Python, JavaScript, HTML5, Git, source control, and software testing is required.
  • Familiarity with Intel, AMD, Nvidia, or ARM CPU/GPU architectures and Aspeed BMC products is required or preferred as specified.
  • Experience with Secure Boot, SPDM, Platform Root of Trust, DICE, NIST SP 800-193, PKI, certificates, AES, HMAC, and ECC is required.
  • Modern BIOS architecture, system design, block diagrams, server provisioning and deployment, and MegaRAC experience are beneficial or preferred.
  • Ability to assess projects, articulate risks, define milestones, communicate technical direction, influence others, and mentor engineers is required.
Jabil

About Jabil

10,000+ employees

Jabil is a public electronics manufacturing services company that designs, builds, and manages supply chains for brands in electronics, healthcare, automotive, and industrial markets. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, it operates more than 100 sites across numerous countries. Its offerings span design engineering, contract manufacturing, materials and tooling, packaging, and global fulfillment and aftermarket services.

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