10 - Staff Engineer, Systems/Applications Design

Region: Americas | Country: USA | State/Province: Texas | City: Richardson

About the role

Systems & Applications Design is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that collaborates with cross-functional teams—including other engineers, customers, supply chain, and project leadership—to ensure robust and high-quality product development. The Staff Engineer, Systems/Applications designs, integrates, and manages complex systems over their life cycles, serving as an engineering lead on issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability, and other disciplines critical to successful system design, development, implementation, and decommission. This role enhances designs with feedback from reviews in areas like manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and simulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for complex projects involving multiple domains.
• Participate in project planning and scheduling.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to a sizable team of engineers.
• Serve as a recognized expert (go-to person) in one or more technical areas.
• Take responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project, including people and financials.
• Review and interpret customer requirements/specifications; may act as the primary customer contact.
• Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions.
• Develop deployment strategies and plans.
• Lead the deployment of strategic complex programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• Manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
• Research systems ideas and draw up plans for these systems.
• Design, modify, and implement systems that meet customer and Celestica needs, including dividing tasks among engineering teams while considering requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination, testing, evaluation, maintainability, and field support.
• Test, simulate, and measure (including troubleshooting) the performance of systems.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations.
• Solve complex problems.
• Liaise with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams.
• Analyze and interpret data and information.
• Recommend system modifications.
• Create reports and documentation.

Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of related experience in similar job roles.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment.
• May require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.