Principal System Architect (Remote)

Technical Leadership & Customer Engagement

Serve as the primary technical liaison for TE’s customers, actively engaging with hyperscalers, OEMs, and system architects to gain deep insights into next-generation compute, AI, storage, and networking challenges.

Proactively identify and assess technology disruptors, translating emerging trends into strategic R&D initiatives and product development roadmaps to maintain TE’s industry leadership.

Cultivate and strengthen customer partnerships, fostering co-development opportunities and collaborative innovation to accelerate next-gen infrastructure advancements.

Drive thought leadership by educating and influencing internal and external stakeholders, from executives and product teams to key decision-makers in customer organizations, on emerging industry trends, TE’s technical capabilities, and high-value engineering solutions.

Bridge the gap between customer needs and TE’s technology roadmap, ensuring TE delivers future-proof, scalable, and high-performance interconnect solutions tailored to the evolving data infrastructure landscape.

System-Level Architecture & Product Strategy

Define high-level system architecture requirements, ensuring TE’s product roadmap is aligned with next-generation compute, AI, and networking ecosystems.

Drive TE’s technology vision and strategy, ensuring our interconnect solutions support the evolving needs of standards like PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, InfiniBand, and the next-gen AI workloads.

Lead the evaluation of high-speed electrical, optical, and hybrid interconnect solutions, balancing performance, power, latency, cost, and manufacturability.

Collaborate with internal R&D, product development, and business units to shape product development roadmaps based on real-world customer challenges and market trends.

Drive technical due diligence for potential partnerships, acquisitions, and ecosystem collaborations, ensuring TE stays at the forefront of innovation.

Standards Development & Industry Influence

Actively participate in and influence key industry standards groups (e.g., OCP, PCI-SIG, IEEE, Ethernet Alliance, CXL Consortium), ensuring TE’s strategic alignment with the future of data communication.

Lead and influence discussions on emerging protocols and interface standards, ensuring TE is at the forefront of next-generation high-speed, low-latency interconnect technologies.

Champion TE’s technical leadership by actively contributing to the development of next-gen copper and optical interconnect standards, positioning TE as an industry innovator, ensuring our solutions stay ahead of the competition

Represent TE at industry forums, conferences, and standards organizations, reinforcing our role as a leader in high-speed interconnect technology and ensuring our strategic perspectives drive industry advancements.

Develop and present thought leadership content, including technical whitepapers, reference designs, keynote presentations, and industry presentations, to amplify TE’s influence within the standards community and the broader industry ecosystem.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution

Work cross-functionally with engineering, product management, sales, and marketing teams to translate technical insights into compelling product offerings.

Drive the execution of high-impact, innovative technical projects, ensuring seamless alignment between customer needs, business goals, and engineering capabilities.

Guide TE’s go-to-market strategy for new interconnect solutions, ensuring that our technical differentiation is clearly communicated and leveraged in competitive landscapes.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Having a dual bachelor’s degree in business or an MBA is a plus

Generally requires 10 years of relevant electrical engineering work experience and 5+ years of experience in the system-level design in the datacenter, compute, networking or storage industry

In-depth knowledge of hardware and associated signaling environments. Technical expertise in high-speed engineering and design

Deep knowledge of compute, networking, AI / ML, or storage architecture.

Expertise with industry-standard design tools (e.g., simulation, modeling, CAD, or signal integrity analysis)

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

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COMPENSATION

Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $154,100 – $231,100 (subject to change dependent on physical location)

Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.

Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits