Principal System Architect

Originally posted 13 November 2026 by the employer.

About the role

The Principal System Architect defines embedded software and system architectures for data center infrastructure at the intersection of silicon, embedded computing, software, power, sensing, communications, and security.

What you'll do

• Define system architectures spanning platforms, silicon, hardware, embedded compute, software, communications, sensing, control, and security.
• Translate customer and system requirements into architectural requirements, partitioning, interfaces, and implementation choices.
• Determine functional partitioning across systems, evaluating tradeoffs among silicon, hardware, firmware, software, communications, and control.
• Identify technical risks and critical dependencies early, resolving them through analysis, modeling, experimentation, and prototypes.
• Drive architectural decisions to closure early in development to balance differentiation, schedule, cost, reuse, and customer value.
• Provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers and establishing consensus on architectural choices.

What you'll need

• Deep engineering experience across power conversion, power management, and control.
• Demonstrated technical capability in digital systems, hardware architecture, microcontrollers, SoCs, and embedded compute.
• Technical background spanning embedded firmware, real-time systems, software architecture, and system architecture.
• Experience with communications protocols, system interfaces, sensing, measurement, and telemetry.
• Knowledge of control algorithms, signal processing, reliability, diagnostics, fault management, and embedded security.
• Expertise evaluating system-level tradeoffs across analog, digital, firmware, and software boundaries.

Skills: system architecture, embedded compute, power conversion, data center infrastructure

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