Senior Director, Design Engineering

Summary

The role is for a highly accomplished and forward-thinking Senior Director, Technical Engineer for a leading role in a critical customer engagement. This role demands a unique blend of technical expertise, customer-centricity, and a passion for emerging technologies to drive innovation and deliver exceptional results.

Responsibilities

Lead Technical Engagement

- Serve as the principal technical advisor and leader for a key customer, fostering a deep understanding of their business needs and technical challenges. - Collaborate closely with the customer to define project scope, technical requirements, and success criteria, ensuring alignment with their strategic objectives. - Architect and design innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML) to address the customer's unique needs. - Effectively communicate complex technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences at the customer, building trust and confidence.

Drive Engineering Excellence

- Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. - Oversee the full software development lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment, ensuring adherence to the highest quality standards. - Champion engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, GenAI based toolsets and comprehensive documentation. - Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Ensure Quality Outcomes

- Define and implement robust quality assurance processes and metrics to ensure that deliverables consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. - Proactively identify and mitigate risks to project success and product quality. - Champion a culture of quality throughout the engineering team and the customer engagement.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

- Deep Expertise: 20+ years of experience in product architecture and engineering, with a proven track record of designing, developing, and delivering complex solutions. - Technical Mastery: Expert-level understanding of software and hardware engineering principles, design patterns, and architectural best practices. Solid understanding on the interdependencies and system limits within power, thermal, electrical, mechanical, and both FW control systems as well as performant workload systems SW. - Emerging Tech Focus: Strong experience with and passion for emerging technologies, with the ability to apply them creatively to solve real-world problems. - Customer-Centric Approach: Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to build strong customer relationships and understand their needs. - Quality Advocate: Deep understanding of quality assurance methodologies and a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions. - Strategic Thinker: Able to translate customer needs into technical solutions and align engineering efforts with business goals. - Leadership and Mentorship: Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. - Domain: Must have had hands on experience, in C/C++, python, Linux kernel, Platform drivers, open source development, Networking switching chipsets

Physical Demands

Incumbent will perform the duties of this position in a normal office environment.

Typical Experience

- Fifteen plus years’ relevant experience

Salary

$208,000-$367,000/year

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

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.