Senior Staff Engineer, Hardware Design

Req ID: 130074

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: New Hampshire

City: Remote Employee US

If you're reading this, chances are that you're getting this information over at least one piece of hardware that we designed, developed, manufactured or service. Celestica is the brand behind the brands you love in tech and we design, develop, and manufacture leading-edge Hardware Platform Solutions in Networking, Storage, and Server solutions from general purpose to customized Cloud, AI, machine learning, Edge and 5G deployments. Across Data Centers and Enterprise deployments, we are partnered with an impressive roster of some of the world's biggest tech companies. We work with 9 of the top 10 global internet service providers, 4 of the top 5 global storage providers, 3 of the top 5 networking OEMs, and the top 3 non-X86 server providers engineering solutions for this generation and the next.

Our customers experience firsthand the power of our people - people who share a passion for innovation, technology, collaboration, performance and quality. People who, together, make a formidable team that is not only transforming our company, but transforming the technology landscape of the future.

Celestica might not be a household name, but as you evaluate the companies, industries, cultures and teams that you are considering for your next career move, we hope that one thing will become very clear: Celestica is no ordinary company. We are change makers. Innovators. And we have an unrelenting drive to find the way for our customers.

Let's engineer the future together.

Responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting thermal system solutions for AI centric networking and compute systems, and related products. In this position you will help develop hardware solutions to be integrated into common platform designs including processors, high speed serial interfaces, high power delivery networks, NPUs, GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, and memory. You will work with HW and FW design, mechanical, power, and validation engineers. You will drive system architecture of end to end thermal design from rack level down to the board level heat sink/coldplate solutions. The successful candidate will work across disciplines to assure thermal designs meet the requirements of the system specification. You will work closely with Celestica multi-disciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams to understand the system requirements and contribute or lead the specification, design, and debug of complex thermal solution systems for datacenter products.

• Engage with customers and key suppliers on leading thermal solution architecture and solutions for high power systems such as AI/ML.
• Act as recognized thermal SME and trusted advisor to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Engage as part of systems team for early engagement with customers on system design concepts and requirements.
• Develop thermal solution concepts with critical insights into trade-offs, risks, and benefits
• Drive related thermal technology roadmap initiatives with ecosystems, early customer engagement, and internal investment activities
• Develop and validate thermal systems requirements between customers and engineering
• Oversight, guidance, and review thermal development activity within engineering to ensure alignment to requirements and assist in key risk management mitigations
• Experience with high power density cooling solutions, liquid cooling, advanced cold plate and cooling loop design, to affect efficient, high density tray and rack level thermal design, including relevant simulations, analysis , test vehicles, and test plans
• Experience with alternative and emerging cooling strategies, their trade-offs, benefits, challenges
• Support engineering technical leads, thermal, power, and SI engineers on constraints, components selection, thermal design, test plans, bring-up and debug as needed.
• Participate in industry organizations and supplier engagements driving leading edge power solutions

• 10+ years relevant industry experience
• Strong user of Flotherm as CFD analysis tool. Transient analysis experience is a plus
• Expert in various heat sinks, heat pipe, vapor chamber design/selection, liquid cooling or other advanced cooling technology is a plus
• in-depth experience in various fan speed control methodology and over temperature protection mechanism
• Expert with thermal measurement technology and test tools such as temperature data logger, IR camera, wind tunnel, air speed meter etc.
• Advanced knowledge of Mechanical design tool such as Pro/E considered a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of server/storage/switch system architecture is a plus.
• Broad knowledge of industry standards including SBB, NEBS, GR-63, ASHRAE TC9.9,etc
• Strong customer communications and technical engagement skills. Able to act as trusted advisor in early concept and executions discussions.
• Experience of products development from prototype to mass production.
• 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
• Failure mode analysis

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

• 10+ years relevant industry experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Master's is preferred.
• Educational Requirements may vary by Geography.

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.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

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.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.