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Principal Engineer, Power Design

Celestica · Austin, TX · 2 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time

About the role

The Principal Power Engineer develops new electrical systems/circuits for various applications. They research system ideas, draw up plans, and capture them in schematics and system specifications. They test, simulate, validate, and qualify their systems and make adjustments as needed. They provide support throughout the manufacturing of the electrical systems they have designed.

The Principal Power Engineer works in cross-functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering, and project leadership to ensure robust and high-quality product development. They enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and simulations.

Responsibilities

  • Work autonomously and take initiatives to manage team priorities
  • Provide technical guidance and support to Staff and Sr. engineers
  • Design, develop, and implement technical solutions for complex projects. Participate in project planning and scheduling
  • Propose innovative solutions for performance, reliability, and features of system or product
  • Global SME with comprehensive knowledge and industry recognition. Provides technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers
  • Reviews and interprets customer specifications and may act as primary customer contact
  • Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions. Develop and lead deployment strategies and plans
  • Lead and manage schematic design, Bills of material, power tree, drawings, board layout, and cross-functional design reviews
  • Lead power bring-up, debugging, and support for manufacturing assembly, and deployment
  • Takes responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project (people, financials etc.)
  • Lead relationships with key vendors and partners
  • Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations, and share within team
  • Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams
  • Analyze and create reports and documentation of specifications, design, testing, debugging, and etc.
  • May be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas

Requirements

Considered a Subject Matter Expert in the area of power design, such as single/multi-phase DC/DC converter, point-of-load converter, LDO, MOSFETs, magnetics, hot-swap circuitry of how-swap controller, load switches, current sense circuit and amplifier, and etc

Experienced in designing power systems for networking, compute, or storage products

Experienced in high-current, low-voltage power subsystems for CPU, GPU, ASIC, SoC, and FPGA

Familiar with schematic capture and CAD layout tools or equivalent ones

Proficient with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, PSPICE, and LTSPICE, or equivalent tools

Experienced with end-to-end power delivery network design, and simulation using circuit simulation tools, Sigrity PowerDC/SI, ANSYS SIWave or equivalent, and board level correlation

Knowledge of high-density power modules and Vertical Power Delivery (Knowledge on Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) is a plus)

Experienced with power integrity evaluation

Experienced with design and troubleshooting of power management interfaces such as PMBus, AVS, SVID and SVI2/3

Experienced with defining specifications and validation of power connectors, cable assemblies and fuses

Familiar with NPI hardware design and deployment cycle

Experienced with development of test automation for power validation that is a plus

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to present to various audiences effectively

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

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

  • Technical skills as described above

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.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica Overview

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

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