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Senior Lead Engineer, Hardware Design

Celestica

Req ID: 131002
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Austin


Summary

The Senior Lead Engineer, Hardware Design works within cross functional teams, including other designers, customers, manufacturing, and project leadership to ensure robust, high quality product development. In this role, you will research and develop new electrical systems and circuits for various applications, capturing plans through detailed schematics and system specifications. You will be responsible for designs based on reviews for manufacturing, test, and reliability, simulating and validating systems, and providing technical engineering support throughout the entire manufacturing process.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
  • Work on the design, development, and implementation of technical electrical engineering solutions for complex hardware projects.
  • Research system ideas, analyze engineering trade-offs, and recommend electrical modifications to ensure all designs meet rigorous performance standards.
  • Provide technical engineering direction for high-speed hardware design and architecture.
  • Review, interpret, and negotiate customer technical requirements and specifications as the primary engineering contact.
  • Design, modify, and implement electrical systems that meet customer and Celestica requirements.
  • Create detailed schematics, bills of materials, diagrams, and physical board drawings.
  • Ensure all designs and processes comply with relevant industry regulations, EMC and EMI layout requirements, and internal standards.
  • Analyze and interpret complex electrical data and information to create comprehensive engineering reports.
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
  • Strong engineering background in compute, storage, or network switching products is highly preferred.
  • Extensive experience in complex high-speed hardware design, architecture, reliability, and failure analysis.
  • Demonstrated experience with high-speed electrical interfaces such as DDRx, PCIe, Ethernet, and high-speed SERDES.
  • Experience designing large 20+ layer count boards featuring 50G plus signals.
  • Expert in PCB design tools Cadence Allegro or Valor Trilogy 5000 and NPI preferred.
  • Expertise in advanced PCB manufacturing technologies, including sequential lamination, HDI, and ultra-low loss materials.
  • Strong knowledge of setting and complying with board and trace constraints for high-density PCB design.
  • Technical engineering expertise in GPU servers and Broadcom chip applications is preferred.
  • Excellent knowledge of industry and quality standards including IPC guidelines.
  • Advanced technical problem-solving, multitasking, and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Typical Experience
  • Complex hardware design experience which can include server, storage, or network switching architectures.
Typical Education
  • Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Educational Requirements may vary by Geography
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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

COMPANY 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.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.
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