• Confer with sales engineers, project managers, customers, and others to discuss and understand project specifications, scope, and design requirements. • Locate and review bidding information to confirm all required documents (e.g., DWGs, manifests) match the scope of work. • Prepare preliminary questions related to the scope to provide a more accurate proposal. • Prepare detailed and complete controls hardware pricing estimates and system design drawings to implement the project scope per specifications, codes, and customer requirements. • Work with company-provided pricing tools and assist in improving and enhancing those tools to keep pace with new hardware specs. • Communicate designs, ideas, and questions to other team members and functional groups to define scope and agree on proposed solutions. • Travel to job sites as required for design review, concept discussions, or site evaluations (up to 10–15% per year).

• 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 • stay up to date with Open Compute (OCP), Computer Express Link (CXL) or Open BMC • evaluate and integrate technology enablers such as PCIe Gen5/6, high-efficiency power stages, and new materials • participate in roadmap planning with BU/CTO to ensure platform reusability and alignment with future-generation technologies • define how electrical, mechanical, thermal, and firmware domains interact to support functional and performance goals • coordinate platform-level integration strategies including MB placement, airflow optimization, and system serviceability • align system-level DFM/EMC/thermal reliability requirements in early phase and guide downstream teams with clear targets • lead the creation of architecture decks, system requirements, platform-level block diagrams, and BoM-level feasibility plans • drive internal and customer-facing design reviews for architecture alignment and requirement sign-off • maintain issue-tracking and lessons-learned documentation to improve future concept efficiency

• Perform firmware updates and lifecycle management for server hardware • Troubleshoot hardware and infrastructure-related issues (servers, components, connectivity) • Support provisioning and decommissioning of bare metal servers • Work with out-of-band management interfaces (IPMI / iDRAC / iLO or similar) • Apply and maintain hardware configuration standards and profiles • Participate in incident response and root cause analysis • Contribute to development of operational processes and documentation (SOPs) • Collaborate with infrastructure, network and devops teams • Participate in evaluation and selection of hardware configurations (CPU, RAM, storage, components) • Contribute to infrastructure scaling and hardware standardization • Participate in on-call rotations

• Developing production-grade firmware for Matter-enabled devices • Owning firmware development across the full device lifecycle • Participating in hardware debugging and validation using tools • Collaborating with hardware engineers and cross-functional teams