Senior System Management Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Senior System Management Architect. Location: Israel: Tel Aviv, Raanana, or Yokneam

Responsibilities:

• Define and document production, provisioning, update, recovery, and reset flows for advanced SmartNIC cards.
• Align board-level architecture with platform-level requirements across NIC ASICs, BMCs, CPUs, and peripheral components.
• Specify security provisioning flows including OTP fusing, secure boot, attestation key injection, certificate chain management, RPMC key derivation, and Post-Quantum Cryptography requirements.
• Define IPN-to-OPN transition and component-locking procedures;
• Specify management protocols including MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, and NC-SI for secure boot, firmware updates, and telemetry.
• Define CPLD logic requirements, power-sequencing dependencies, and reset orchestration, including PCIe PERST#, SBR, and forced resets.
• Architect intra-board communication using PCIe, I2C/I3C, USB, and SPI.
• Ensure robust out-of-band and in-band management connectivity.
• Collaborate with Production, Hardware Engineering, Firmware Engineering, NIC firmware and driver teams, and QA.
• Create technical specifications, test plans, architectural documents, state-machine descriptions, and sequence diagrams.

Qualifications:

• Proven ability to understand complex computing or networking systems from system level through device level.
• Background working with SmartNIC boards, chassis, or network tray architectures;
• Hands-on experience debugging or architecting systems involving BMCs such as OpenBMC, MCUs, CPUs, and complex networking ASICs.
• Strong knowledge of MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, and NC-SI;
• Deep familiarity with I2C, I3C, SPI, USB, and PCIe architecture, including link states and reset mechanisms.
• Exceptional ability to create clear technical specifications and system documentation.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience.

Preferred:

• Experience with Redfish API definitions and out-of-band network infrastructure.
• Familiarity with hardware root of trust, including HRoT/eROT concepts and secure boot architectures.
• Experience with PLDM firmware update bundle packaging and update agent implementation;
• Experience with production-line tooling, factory provisioning, and manufacturing test flows.
• Networking experience involving general networking principles, SmartNIC data-plane and offload operations, or high-speed data center topologies.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Opportunity to architect management systems for next-generation SmartNIC platforms.
• Work across hardware, firmware, networking, security, production, and QA teams.
• Opportunity to contribute to advanced data center infrastructure and complex multi-silicon platforms.

Other Information:

• Job requisition ID: JR2022196
• Profession: Quantum Computing
• Discipline: Quantum Engineering
• Role type: Individual Contributor
• Work arrangement: 3 days per week in-office
• Travel: Less than 25%