Sr. Principal System Architect - SONiC Software

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

SONiC Software System Architects at Jabil collaborate with customers, sales and product planning to establish the technical direction for Jabil design teams in the switch gear market.

As a SONiC System Architect, you will be expected to

• Demonstrate expertise in SONiC and switch platform architecture that matches or exceeds customer expectations.
• Assess technical requirements and define competencies needed during quoting.
• Develop system architectures and monitor technical direction through product development.
• Mentor others in the organization to build team design capability

• Advise customers, product planning, and business development on technology tradeoffs for switch platforms.
• Defining end-to-end system architecture for datacenter switch platforms running SONiC from hardware abstraction, control plane, management and tooling.
• Establish technical direction for customer originated projects and Jabil's own cloud compute product offerings. Technical direction includes:

• Alignment to product requirements documents
• Architectural tradeoffs on cost, complexity, and schedule
• SONiC core, platform, SAI feature planning and gap analysis
• Inter-generation, cross ASIC, and open-source leverage strategy and risk planning.

• Capability to research and explore unfamiliar technologies and concepts with a focus on feasibility, integration risks and schedule impacts.
• Ability to translate product and customer requirements into technical specifications, phase delivery plans.
• In depth knowledge of architecture of SWSS orch agents, Redis databases, syncd, SAI object model, platform daemons, FRUs, transceiver and port configuration.
• Experience porting platforms and adding features to sonic-buildimage.
• Experience with Broadcom and Marvell switch ASICs (SDK, OpenSAI or vendor SAI, port breakout, buffer/QoS concepts)
• Knowledgeable about datacenter L2/L3 switching, routing (BGP, ECMP), overlays, as well as link bring-up concepts.
• Familiarity with the Intel, AMD, Nvidia or ARM CPU/GPU architectures. Specifically, an understanding of how the firmware stack operates and interacts with the core system components
• Proficiency in C++, python, git, CI/CD, and agile delivery.
• Ability to review code and set standards as well as awareness of modern development practices and test automations.
• Experience working with industry standards for IPMI, Redfish, MCTP, PLDM, SMBus, i2c, i3c, SPI, etc.
• Familiarity with Secure Boot, SPDM, Platform Root of Trust, and NIST SP 800-193 standards.
• Fluent in reading block diagrams and familiarity with system design preferred
• Fluency in server management (provisioning, deployment, management, service) is preferred.
• Expertise with Linux, kernel, device drivers, and user space platform integrations.

• Influence stakeholders and share architecture best practices across teams.
• Communicate clearly in English through written specs, reviews, and customer facing discussion.
• Work effectively as part of a global, distributed engineering team.
• Assess projects, articulate technical and schedule risks, and define meaningful milestones.
• Mentor less experienced engineers.
• Break down customer requirements into actionable engineering work items with clear acceptance criteria.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering required
• 7+ years' experience in switch design and engineering