Provide architectural guidance and leadership to cross-functional engineering teams to establish new product definitions and requirements Provide system architecture guidance Negotiate top level product goals among a broad group of architects and system engineers, technical leads, HW & SW engineering managers, and external vendors Determine product system integration feasibility, via collaboration with mechanical, physical, thermal, and electrical engineering stakeholders. Author system architecture specifications, block diagrams, and conduct review with the product teams. Collaborate with performance architects to define, model and drive improvements in performance, power efficiency and cost Analyze, guide and support thermal management solutions and trade-offs Anticipate future SoC requirements and negotiate with internal SoC teams to align with system product goals Be innovative and curious. Explore and champion new product-level features and workflows. Review, challenge and influence people and processes Lead system architecture and guide early design team activities Define, develop and utilize tools, scripts, automation and methods of system analysis Mentor junior engineers to best practices and data-driven processes The role may require occasional domestic and international travel.