Principal, Design Engineering

About the role

The Principal, Design Engineering will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting power system solutions for Networking, storage & server systems and related products. This includes developing hardware solutions to be integrated into common platform designs, including processors, high speed serial interfaces, NPUs, FPGAs, High speed memory (DDR4/DDR5), and high-speed PCB layout. The role involves working with design, software/firmware, mechanical and thermal engineers to drive system architecture of multi-tiered power network design from rack level power distribution down to the board level POL solution. The successful candidate will work across disciplines to ensure power supply designs meet the power, thermal, and safety requirements of the system specification.

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. May be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas.
• Take responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project (people, financials etc.).
• Review and interpret customer requirements/specifications and may act as primary customer contract.
• Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions. Develops deployment strategies and plans.
• Lead the deployment of strategic complex programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• May manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
• Research systems ideas and will draw up plans for these systems.
• Create designs in line with Celestica's procedures, regulations and customer standards.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations.
• Solve complex problems.
• Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams.
• Recommend system modifications.

Technical Capabilities

• Strong engineering design experience in the field of Compute, Storage, or Network products required.
• Knowledge of AI products, GPU servers is a strong plus.
• Experience with high speed OSFP/QSFP networking design equipment and testing is a plus.
• Experience in very high speed digital hardware design and development and understanding of complex concepts related to architecture, design engineering, reliability, prototyping and failure analysis required.
• Design experience with DDR5, 100GbE or faster Ethernet, PCIe Gen5 or above, 56G SERDES, or similar interfaces is a plus.

Physical Demands

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

Typical Experience

• 15+ years of related experience;Experience in similar job roles.

Typical Education

• Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.