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Senior Principal, Design Engineering, Power Design

Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America

Onsite $182,000 - $319,000 Full-time Senior Principal

The Senior Principal will architect, implement, and support complex power system solutions for networking, storage, and server hardware. They will lead cross-disciplinary teams to ensure power designs meet thermal, safety, and performance requirements for datacenter products.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with customers and key suppliers on leading power solution architecture and solutions for high power systems
  • 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
  • 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
  • Support engineering technical leads, power engineers, and SI engineers on constraints, components selection, power tree design, test plans, bring-up, and debug as needed

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience, 5+ years of power supply design experience
  • Familiarity 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
  • Familiarity with Intel VR solutions like VR12.5 and VR13 design
  • Well-understanding of power efficiency optimization
  • Experience with 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

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits package
  • Opportunity to work with a leader in the industry
  • Professional development opportunities

Key Skills

Power supply design DC-DC power conversion Power efficiency optimization Intel VR solutions Power system architecture Power redundancy strategies Circuit simulation Control loops Stabilization Phase and gain margins Component selection Trade-offs Spice LTspice TI WorkBench Power supply layout Thermal design rules High-current low-voltage multi-phase power delivery Ultra-low noise power delivery System power architecture Subsystem power architecture Rack level power architecture

About Celestica International Lp

Celestica is a global technology and innovation partner driven by curiosity and conviction. As a pioneer in technology, we enable critical data center infrastructure for the world's leading hyperscalers, powering AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud at an unprecedented scale. Our work advances high-growth markets from aerospace to healthcare to enterprise, delivering technology that drives real-world innovation. With unwavering dedication to both our customers and colleagues, we empower transformative growth with every solution we deliver. Together, we make great things happen—and move the world forward.

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