Principal System Architect

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with key OEM and other customers
• Identifying potential technology disrupters (which often requires expertise in various technologies)
• Integrating customer needs, compute industry knowledge, and business insight to create compelling visions around technology and product trends that will drive the organization forward
• Influencing executive leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to invest in new technology and products to meet the next generation needs of our customers and the market
• Working within a small geographically dispersed system architecture team to share subject matter expertise and best practices
• Being an industry subject matter expert, collaborating closely with external customers as well as internal business development, strategy and engineering development teams
• Driving high value development projects (hardware and high-speed signaling) that will require you to lead and interface with large groups
• Manage the technical cooperation with customers and coordinate TE’s internal development engineering team to assure technical and functional feasibility from the eyes of the customer.
• Ensuring we are following required industry standards while also helping to drive the strategy for new standards

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. Having a dual bachelor’s degree in business or MBA is a plus
• 12 years experience in compute and/or networking industry system design and related technologies
• In-depth knowledge of hardware and associated signaling environments. Technical expertise in high-speed signaling and engineering design
• Familiarity with AI, compute, networking and storage architectures.
• The geographically dispersed group requires that the candidate be self-motivating with the ability to take the initiative to accomplish tasks with limited direction
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Effectively able to build relationships with external customers and industry leaders as well as internally across all levels, disciplines, and geographies
• Ability to spend 25%-30% of your time traveling
• Must reside in the Austin, TX area