Senior System Management Architect

Overview

• Our Host Management Team focuses on AI factory management infrastructure.
• We define the next-generation management architecture of the data center — top-down, clusters, racks, platforms and multi-SoC trays.
• The architecture covers end-to-end flows for power-on, reset and boot sequences, power saving, management protocols to keep the system operating securely and reliably.
• We are seeking a Senior System Management Architect to join our growing team.
• You will be the resident expert for system management, ensuring that AI factory management components (BMCs, MCUs, CPUs, network switches and CPLDs) operate in perfect unison.
• You will own the lifecycle management specifications for AI factory platforms — from factory provisioning to day-one deployment.
• If you enjoy studying a high-level system diagram and then immediately diving into the system-level buses and interface signals topology and the associated host management protocols modeling required to make it work, this role is for you.
• What you'll be doing: System Architecture & Flow Definition: Define and document comprehensive production, provisioning, update, recovery, and reset flows for AI factory sub-systems.
• Ensure system-level architectural alignment and orchestrate seamless coordination between all the AI-Factory building blocks: GPU, DPU, CPU, Switch ASIC, NIC ASIC, BMC, and peripheral components.
• Protocol Implementation & Guidance: Specify the use of standard management protocols (Red-Fish, NSM, PLDM, SPDM, MCTP, NC-SI) across sub-system interfaces to implement the management tasks.
• Hardware/Software Intersect: Define system-level hardware and software behavior, including CPLD logic requirements, power-sequencing dependencies, and reset orchestration (e.g., handling PCIe PERST#, SBR, and forced resets).
• Interface Management: Architect intra-board communication pathways using PCIe, I2C/I3C, USB, and SPI, ensuring robust out-of-band (OOB) and in-band management connectivity.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Production, Hardware and Firmware Engineering, ASIC FW/Driver teams, SW/NOS teams and QA to translate architectural specifications into implementable, testable solutions.
• Technical Documentation: Author rigorous technical specifications, test plans, and architectural design documents to guide development and factory production.
• What we need to see: Deep System-Level Perspective: Proven ability to understand complex computing or networking systems top-to-bottom, with a background in networking architectures and efficiency and power saving methods.
• Protocol Fluency: Strong working knowledge of modern platform management and security protocols.
• Hardware Interface Knowledge: Familiarity with board-level communication buses (I2C, I3C, SPI, USB) and system interconnects (PCIe architecture, including link states and reset mechanisms).
• Analytical Documentation Skills: Exceptional ability to write clear, unambiguous technical specifications, state-machine descriptions, and sequence diagrams.
• Experience: BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Experience with power-saving methods.
• Background with Redfish RESTful API definitions and OOB network infrastructure.
• Familiarity with hardware RoT concepts and secure boot architectures.
• Experience with production line tooling, factory provisioning, and manufacturing test flows.
• Background in networking principles, Switch, NIC/SmartNIC data-plane and offload operations, or high-speed data center topologies.