Lenovo

Lenovo Workstations provide powerful solutions to drive productivity, innovation, and design excellence in key vertical segments such as Manufacturing Design, Engineering & CAD, Animation/Media/Web Creation, Science/Medical, Oil & Gas, and Finance. 

To maintain our leadership and compete in this aggressive marketplace, we are seeking to enhance our team with a System Architect. Responsibilities include architecting innovative workstation designs, engaging with vendors and suppliers on product/technology roadmaps, oversight of development and validation of workstations and sub-systems. Other responsibilities include engaging with Product Management and customers on defining product features. It will require leadership and assimilating all the design aspects holistically at a system level. Beyond the technical aspects of this role, your leadership and communications skills will be crucial when engaging internal cross-functional teams and especially end customers on discussing technical issues and providing solutions.

For this role you will be working with a combination of HW/SW architects to create best of class workstations that provide optimal performance while managing cost and design constraints.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering/Science, or equivalent
• Work with vendors and Workstation Strategy Team on future technology and implementation
• Engage with Product Management team and author Product Requirements for development
• 15+ years experience with hardware design and architecture
• Experience with hardware development cycle
• Holistic view of system architecture including: electrical, thermal, and mechanical disciplines
• Deep understanding of PC architecture, storage architecture, network architecture, GPU architecture, and general I/O
• System optimization for cost competitiveness
• Willingness to travel (~10%)

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong leadership skills to influence and support the direction of the team to achieve set goals
• Ability to brainstorming and innovate
• Ability to distill complex problems into simple charts for presentation
• Working knowledge of embedded controllers and FW
• Working knowledge of software stack
• Working knowledge of standards compliance testing, e.g., safety, CE, environmental, etc.
• Results oriented in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to multi-task
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Positive professional attitude with flexibility