Senior Principal, Design Engineering, Power Design

About the role

The Senior Principal, Design Engineering will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting power system solutions for Networking, storage & server systems and related products. In this position you will help develop 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. You will work with design, software/firmware, mechanical and thermal engineers. You will drive system architecture of multi-tiered power network design from rack level power distribution down to the board level POL solution.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers and key suppliers on leading power solution architecture and solutions for high power systems such as AI/ML.
• Act as recognized power SME and trusted advisor to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Drive related power technology roadmap initiatives with ecosystems, early customer engagement, and internal investment activities.
• Develop power solution concepts with critical insights into trade-offs, risks, and benefits.
• Develop and validate power systems requirements between customers and engineering.
• Oversight, guidance, and review power development activity within engineering to ensure alignment to requirements and assist in key risk management mitigations.
• Work closely with Celestica multi-disciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams to understand the system requirements and contribute or lead the specification, design, and debug of complex power delivery systems for datacenter products.
• Experience with high power, low noise, efficient, high density board level power design, including relevant simulations, analysis, test vehicles, and test plans.
• Experience with system power architecture, subsystem and rack level, power redundancy strategies.
• Support engineering technical leads, power engineers, and SI engineers on constraints, components selection, power tree design, test plans, bring-up and debug as needed.
• Participate in industry organizations and supplier engagements driving leading edge power solutions.
• Experience 10+ years industry experience, 5+ years power supply design experience.
• Familiar with the theory of buck, boost, buck-boost, LDO, hotswap, oring, load switch, E-fuse, fuel gauge, fuse transistor, diode cell and DC relevant parts and IC.
• Familiar with Intel VR solutions like VR12.5 and VR13 design.
• Well understand power efficiency optimization.
• Experience of products development from prototype to mass production.
• Proficiency in high efficiency DC-DC power conversion design, analysis, circuit simulation, control loops, and stabilization.
• Good understanding and skills to determine phase and gain margins.
• Proficiency in power design component selection and trade-offs.
• Proficiency with Spice, LTspice, TI WorkBench, etc. circuit simulators.
• Experience in both high current low voltage multi-phase (>500W) as well as ultra-low noise power delivery circuitry.
• Proficiency in power supply layout and thermal design rules.
• Proficiency in power-up sequencing in multi-power supply systems.
• Designing interfaces with Processors, SPI & I2C devices.
• Able to quickly grasp the existing designs and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal, written communication skills to produce Specifications and Test Plans.
• Experience in power supply design for leading edge high speed communication devices.
• Experience in power supply design for sensitive optical, switch, memory, NPU, CPU, GPU components.
• Failure mode analysis.
• Good understanding of power efficiency optimization schemes.
• Experience with Cadence Allegro and DxDesigner tools.

Qualifications

• Typical Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Master’s is preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years industry experience, 5+ years power supply design experience.
• Skills: Familiar with the theory of buck, boost, buck-boost, LDO, hotswap, oring, load switch, E-fuse, fuel gauge, fuse transistor, diode cell and DC relevant parts and IC.
• Intel VR solutions like VR12.5 and VR13 design.
• Power efficiency optimization.
• High efficiency DC-DC power conversion design, analysis, circuit simulation, control loops, and stabilization.
• Phase and gain margins.
• Component selection and trade-offs.
• Circuit simulators: Spice, LTspice, TI WorkBench, etc.
• High current low voltage multi-phase (>500W) as well as ultra-low noise power delivery circuitry.
• Power supply layout and thermal design rules.
• Power-up sequencing in multi-power supply systems.
• Interfaces with Processors, SPI & I2C devices.
• Specifying, designing, and debugging complex power delivery systems for datacenter products.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$182,000- $319,000

Schedule

Not specified.