Senior Electrical Architect – Hyperscale Server & Rack

SANMINA-SCI TECHNOLOGY INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; Secaucus (NJ); On-site; USD 148,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

401(k) retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Health coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

ZT Systems in Secaucus, NJ seeks a Principal Electrical Architect to lead server and rack-level designs for cloud and hyperscale customers. You will collaborate with customers and technology suppliers to understand problems and provide technical leadership to internal teams.

This role requires developing long-term engineering strategies, guiding system- and board-level implementations, and shaping next-generation architectures while driving cross-functional initiatives.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical, CS, or Mechanical Engineering and 12+ years of direct industry experience.
• Experience with high-speed design, signal integrity issues, power distribution techniques and x86/ARM/GPU platform architectures.
• Experience with high-speed serial buses and Fabrics (SAS/SATA, PCIe, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, Ethernet), high speed Memory Busses (DDR4/DDR5, HBM), and Processor/Accelerator Cache Coherent Links (CXL).
• Knowledge of server & rack architecture, system level design, board level design and overall server management.
• Strong knowledge of the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) functionality, telemetry, and design for Security/RoT.
• Experience with new product development life cycle and driving cross-functional development efforts from concept to planning to development.
• Demonstrated ability to create detailed architecture specifications and drive business cases for new products and features.
• Strong understanding of network technologies and datacenter network topologies.
• Optional: Working knowledge of server operating systems including Windows Server and Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE).
• Optional: Experience with Server Virtualization Solutions (VMware, Citrix or Hyper‑V).
• Optional: Knowledge of software driver implementation, IP schemas and network protocols.
• Demonstrated ability to discover, learn, and apply new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develops long-term hyperscale server technology strategies based on technical and business footprint of the customer.
• Drives internal and external integration of system level engineering strategy.
• Develops long-term technical relationships with the core technology ecosystem. The relationships should create a technical interface, driving customer requirements into next generation designs.
• Identifies and develops differentiation opportunities and drives thought leadership discussions among engineering, customers, business, and management.
• Work directly with customers on concept and development of custom hyperscale server and rack designs.
• Determine how to solve performance/operational problems and deliver business value through ZT hardware.

Skills

High-speed design

Signal integrity

Power distribution

x86/ARM/GPU platforms

BMC firmware knowledge

Security/Root of Trust

System architect

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

12+ years of direct industry experience

Job description

ZT Systems in Secaucus, NJ seeks a Principal Electrical Architect to lead server and rack-level designs for cloud and hyperscale customers. You will collaborate with customers and technology suppliers to understand problems and provide technical leadership to internal teams.

This role requires developing long-term engineering strategies, guiding system- and board-level implementations, and shaping next-generation architectures while driving cross-functional initiatives.