Senior Lead Engineer, Hardware Design

Celestica • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Lead Engineer, Hardware Design works with cross-functional teams—including designers, customers, manufacturing, and project leadership—to deliver robust, high-quality product development. The role researches and develops electrical systems and circuits for varied applications, documenting designs through detailed schematics and system specifications. It covers design review for manufacturing, testing, and reliability; system simulation and validation; and technical engineering support throughout manufacturing.

The engineer develops technical electrical engineering solutions for complex hardware projects, provides direction on high-speed hardware design and architecture, and serves as the primary engineering contact for customer technical requirements. The position is based in Austin, Texas. Duties are performed in a normal office environment, and occasional travel may be required.

Requirements

• 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 boards with 20 or more layers and signals above 50G.
• Strong knowledge of setting and complying with board and trace constraints for high-density PCB design.
• Excellent knowledge of industry and quality standards, including IPC guidelines.
• Advanced technical problem-solving and multitasking skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Complex hardware design experience, which may include server, storage, or network switching architectures.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Strong engineering background in compute, storage, or network switching products.
• Expertise with PCB design tools such as Cadence Allegro or Valor Trilogy 5000 and NPI.
• Expertise in advanced PCB manufacturing technologies, including sequential lamination, HDI, and ultra-low loss materials.
• Technical engineering expertise in GPU servers and Broadcom chip applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement technical electrical engineering solutions for complex hardware projects.
• Research system concepts, analyze engineering trade-offs, and recommend electrical modifications to meet 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 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 produce engineering reports.
• Support robust product development in collaboration with design, customer, manufacturing, and project leadership teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior