Principal Mechanical Engineer SME

Req ID: 134542 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 
State/Province: Texas 
City:  Richardson 

Summary

This position is for a Principal Mechanical Engineer SME for Mechanical Concept Development. In this role, you will define the mechanical packaging and architecture of leading and competitive AI Rack systems, Compute, and Network systems, engage in new related technology research and study. As a member of the Customer Experience team, you will engage in deeper technical dialog and trade-off analysis with customers and key suppliers. Additionally, the candidate should have working knowledge of the interdependencies from other design disciplines such as compute, connectivity, management, power, and cooling subsystems that impact good mechanical design.

Detailed Description

• Define Complex AI/ML infrastructure mechanical solutions in support of system design objectives and requirements.
• Develop and maintain close technical relationships with suppliers/partners on product roadmaps and technologies.
• Guide RFQ and Celestica platform mechanical packaging solutions
• Ability to rapidly develop and evaluate options and concepts for team analysis
• Provide effective mechanical trade-off analysis and competitive guidance to engineering teams and customers.
• Support System Requirements Documents (SRD) development, requirement compliance assessments, and Technical proposals.
• Act as a primary technical SME to customers on related mechanical topics, concepts, trade-offs, and proposals.
• Good knowledge/understanding of FEA/CFD analysis
• Deep knowledge of rack structures, MiG, Tig, Welding. Quality inspection of welds
• Understanding of costs and tooling as well schedules of the process
• Identify and resolve cross-functional and cross-discipline architectural issues
• Identify and Champion process improvement efforts as needed.
• Participate in standards committees and industry groups as assigned.
• Prepare and present technical presentations to customers, industry groups, tradeshows, etc.
• Maintain current on industry trends and future technology and market opportunities.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Min. 10+ years of direct working experiences in electronic product mechanical design, related to compute / networking / rack level product design experience is a MUST.
• Experience with liquid cooling systems, modular chassis and cabled designs
• Experience with high volume production and high reliability and serviceable products
• Experience in mechanical design in a multi-disciplinary environment, and multiple type of product development cycles
• Good knowledge in material property, manufacturing process, tolerance analysis, stress analysis, thermal analysis, skills to perform kinematics analysis is a plus
• Good knowledge in sheet metal tooling, plastic tooling and die casting tooling.
• Good knowledge in industrial standards and system level environmental compliance
• Good experience on optical module application is a plus.
• Super user of Creo a must. Knowledge of SolidWorks
• Good skills in Microsoft office software
• Business travel possible (include the oversea travel)

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Personal Attributes

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual capable of working with a minimum of supervision in a dynamic team environment. Good interpersonal skills: be able to communicate
effectively with members of other teams, departments and clients; as a high degree of liaison is needed.

Typical Education

Bachelor or master degree in mechanical engineering

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. 
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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.
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