Principal, Design Engineering - Technical Program Lead (TPL)

Celestica International LPAustin, TX
Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Design Engineer TPL will serve as the lead in the hardware design implementation and management of compute systems. Primary responsibilities include driving compute strategies and recommending industry best practices for compute solutions. Additionally this role will support the design and deployment of effective compute systems and research new and emerging technologies particularly in the field of AI.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in hardware design or a related field.
  • Proficiency in compute hardware architectures including datacenter telecommunications enterprise and service provider environments.
  • Strong understanding of compute components and protocols.
  • Hands on experience with AMD and Intel GPUs Broadcom DNX Intel/AMD processors HDDs SSDs SAS/SATA PCIe CXL and x86 architectures.
  • Experience in rack level system design.
  • Proven ability to drive early product concepts and hardware architecture development through prototyping evaluation of new designs system architecture and debugging.
  • Ability to create and analyze architectural and product specifications to enable hardware product development.
  • Solid understanding of hardware security elements.
  • Strong soft skills: Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
  • A self motivated highly organized professional with strong analytical and customer service abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and participate in ideation and concept design creating new and reusable hardware architectures for current and future product categories.
  • Provide strategic direction for the planning design and architecture of high quality complex hardware systems.
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams including Product Group Technology Leads Product Managers Marketing and Sales/SEs to define the technology roadmap.
  • Work closely with product teams (engineers and product line managers) to translate the technology roadmap into concrete hardware products.
  • Analyze compute industry trends and partner with senior leadership to develop the strategic direction for innovative technology initiatives.
  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) sharing knowledge on industry trends and mentoring teams across Hardware Product Solutions (HPS).
  • Select key components to optimize design and cost efficiency for successful market adoption.
  • Review and analyze new technologies summarizing results for presentation to both technical and non technical audiences.
  • Engage with strategic customers to represent our hardware products at a deep technical level using their use cases to drive internal innovation.
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