Principal Engineer, Power Design

Celestica International LP•San Jose, CA

About The Position

The Principal Power Engineer develops electrical systems and circuits for various applications, researches system concepts, and documents designs in schematics and system specifications. The engineer tests, simulates, validates, and qualifies systems, makes adjustments as needed, and supports manufacturing of designed electrical systems. Working in cross-functional teams with designers, customers, manufacturing engineering, and project leadership, the role helps ensure robust, high-quality product development and incorporates feedback from manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and simulation reviews. This position provides technical leadership for complex engineering projects and global teams. The Principal Engineer leads power design and implementation, advises Staff and Senior Engineers, supports customer and vendor relationships, and contributes to project planning, deployment, documentation, and other project responsibilities.

Requirements

11 or more years of relevant work experience, including 3 or more years in a leadership capacity.
Subject matter expertise in power design, including areas such as single- or multi-phase DC/DC converters, point-of-load converters, LDOs, MOSFETs, magnetics, hot-swap circuitry or controllers, load switches, and current-sense circuits and amplifiers.
Experience designing power systems for networking, compute, or storage products.
Experience with high-current, low-voltage power subsystems for CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, SoCs, and FPGAs.
Experience with PCB stack-up, power planes, and tools for simulating voltage gradients.
Familiarity with schematic capture and CAD layout tools or equivalent.
Proficiency with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, PSPICE, and LTSPICE, or equivalent tools.
Experience with end-to-end power delivery network design and simulation using circuit simulation tools, Sigrity PowerDC/SI, ANSYS SIWave, or equivalent, and board-level correlation.
Experience evaluating power integrity.
Experience designing and troubleshooting power-management interfaces such as PMBus, AVS, SVID, and SVI2/3.
Experience defining specifications and validating power connectors, cable assemblies, and fuses.
Familiarity with the NPI hardware design and deployment cycle.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present effectively to varied audiences.
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Integrated Voltage Regulators (IVRs).
Experience developing test automation for power validation.

Responsibilities

Work autonomously and take initiative in managing team priorities.
Provide technical guidance and support to Staff and Senior Engineers.
Design, develop, and implement technical solutions for complex projects; participate in project planning and scheduling.
Propose innovative solutions to improve system or product performance, reliability, and features.
Provide technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers as a global subject matter expert.
Review and interpret customer specifications and potentially serve as the primary customer contact.
Analyze trade-offs in complex systems, recommend solutions, and develop and lead deployment strategies and plans.
Lead schematic design, bills of material, power trees, drawings, board layouts, and cross-functional design reviews.
Lead power bring-up and debugging, and support manufacturing assembly and deployment.
Take responsibility for non-technical elements of engineering projects, including people and financials.
Lead relationships with key vendors and partners.
Keep current with relevant industry knowledge and regulations and share that knowledge with the team.
Liaise with suppliers, customers, contractors, and internal teams.
Analyze and prepare reports and documentation covering specifications, design, testing, and debugging.
Provide recognized expertise in one or more technical areas.