Senior Principal, Design Engineering, Power Design
About The Position
Celestica designs, develops, and manufactures leading-edge Hardware Platform Solutions in Networking, Storage, and Server solutions, ranging from general purpose to customized Cloud, AI, machine learning, Edge, and 5G deployments. They partner with top global internet service providers, storage providers, networking OEMs, and non-X86 server providers. The company emphasizes innovation, technology, collaboration, performance, and quality, aiming to transform the technology landscape. The Senior Principal, Design Engineering will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting power system solutions for Networking, storage & server systems and related products. This role involves developing hardware solutions for integration into common platform designs, including processors, high-speed serial interfaces, NPUs, FPGAs, high-speed memory (DDR4/DDR5), and high-speed PCB layout. The individual will collaborate with design, software/firmware, mechanical, and thermal engineers, driving the system architecture of multi-tiered power network design from rack level power distribution to board level POL solutions. The successful candidate will ensure power supply designs meet power, thermal, and safety requirements and will work closely with Celestica's multi-disciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams to lead the specification, design, and debug of complex power delivery systems for datacenter products.
Requirements
- 10+ years industry experience
- 5+ years power supply design experience
- Experience with high power, low noise, efficient, high density board level power design, including relevant simulations, analysis, test vehicles, and test plans
- Experience with system power architecture, subsystem and rack level, power redundancy strategies.
- Familiar with the theory of buck, boost, buck-boost, LDO, hotswap, oring, load switch, E-fuse, fuel gauge, fuse transistor, diode cell and DC relevant parts and IC.
- Familiar with Intel VR solutions like VR12.5 and VR13 design.
- Well understand power efficiency optimization.
- Experience of products development from prototype to mass production.
- Proficiency in high efficiency DC-DC power conversion design, analysis, circuit simulation, control loops, and stabilization.
- Good understanding and skills to determine phase and gain margins
- Proficiency in power design component selection and trade-offs
- Proficiency with Spice, LTspice, TI WorkBench, etc. circuit simulators
- Experience in both high current low voltage multi-phase (>500W) as well as ultra-low noise power delivery circuitry
- Proficiency in power supply layout and thermal design rules
- Technical leadership of PCB layout with respect to various grounding and low noise etch techniques
- Proficiency in power-up sequencing in multi-power supply systems
- Designing interfaces with Processors, SPI & I2C devices
- Ability to quickly grasp the existing designs and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Excellent verbal, written communication skills to produce Specifications and Test Plans
- Experience in power supply design for leading edge high speed communication devices
- Experience in power supply design for sensitive optical, switch, memory, NPU, CPU, GPU components
- Failure mode analysis
- Good understanding of power efficiency optimization schemes
- Experience with Cadence Allegro and DxDesigner tools
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
Responsibilities
- Engage with customers and key suppliers on leading power solution architecture and solutions for high power systems such as AI/ML.
- Act as recognized power SME and trusted advisor to customers and internal stakeholders
- Drive related power technology roadmap initiatives with ecosystems, early customer engagement, and internal investment activities
- Develop power solution concepts with critical insights into trade-offs, risks, and benefits
- Develop and validate power systems requirements between customers and engineering
- Oversight, guidance, and review power development activity within engineering to ensure alignment to requirements and assist in key risk management mitigations
- Support engineering technical leads, power engineers, and SI engineers on constraints, components selection, power tree design, test plans, bring-up and debug as needed.
- Participate in industry organizations and supplier engagements driving leading edge power solutions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
