Role Summary  As a Lead System Architect at Axiado, you will define the end-to-end architecture bridging silicon (ASIC/SoC), board-level hardware platforms, and low-level system software/firmware. Leveraging your deep expertise in the server and infrastructure industry, you will translate customer requirements into detailed technical specifications. This high-impact role requires navigating complex hardware/software tradeoffs while collaborating closely with Axiado’s engineering teams, customers, standards organizations and ecosystem partners.    Key Responsibilities  1. Architectural Definition & Detailed Specification  Own and author comprehensive, unambiguous system architecture specifications, micro-architectural specs, and/or platform requirement documents.  Define rigorous system-level hardware/software partition boundaries and map out register-level interfaces for hardware blocks and low-level software stacks.  Drive micro-architecture specifications for high-security, AI-driven SoCs, including on-chip interconnects (AXI/AHB), memory hierarchies, and standard I/O interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, SPI, eSPI, I3C, LTPI).  2. Customer Interfacing & Ecosystem Engagement  Serve as a primary technical point of contact for enterprise and hyperscaler customers to gather, analyze, and scope their next-generation platform security needs.  Present Axiado’s system architecture roadmap and technical whitepapers to strategic customers, steering-level partners, and standards committees.  Align Axiado’s technology with modern server deployment topologies and open-source standards (such as OCP DC-SCM / DC-SCI).  3. Server Infrastructure & Board-Level Integration  Architect platform-level designs optimized for enterprise server motherboards, baseboard management systems, and cloud data center environments.  Guide hardware and SI/PI engineers on signal integrity, power delivery networks, and thermal/mechanical constraints for modular server building blocks.  4. Software, Firmware & Security Stack Partitioning  Specify secure platform boot flows, Root-of-Trust (RoT) architecture, and Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) frameworks.  Collaborate with firmware teams to define interfaces for BMC stacks (OpenBMC), Linux kernels, device drivers, and platform management protocols (MCTP, PLDM, Redfish).