Senior Director, Design Engineering

Summary

This position is for a Senior Director Engineer, AI/ML System Architect. As system architect, one will define the architecture of leading and competitive AI systems, lead new technology research, study market trend, customers interface and lead Celestica’s design team in the AI/ML infrastructure space. Although the position is primarily a hardware based, the candidate must have strong knowledge in AI systems design including AI training and inference workloads and performance demands, as well as compute, connectivity, management, power, and cooling subsystems.

Detailed Description

• Define Complex AI/ML infrastructure platform solutions and lead a multi-disciplined team to bring to implementation.
• Extensive and focused engagement through EVT, phasing out thereafter.
• Ensure overall design quality metrics are met.
• Develop and maintain close technical relationships with suppliers/partners on product roadmaps and technologies.
• Lead RFQ technical responses and Celestica platform concept development efforts as appropriate.
• Provide effective trade-off analysis and competitive guidance to engineering teams and customers.
• Deliverables include System Requirements Documents (SRD), requirement compliance assessments, and Technical proposals.
• Act as a primary technical interface between Celestica and our customers, particularly in technical escalation.
• Provide technical support to business development teams to assist in the winning of new business.
• Participate in the selection and hiring of design team resources as required.
• Identify and Champion process improvement efforts as needed.
• Participate in standards committees and industry groups as assigned.
• Prepare and present technical presentations to customers, industry groups, tradeshows, etc.
• Maintain current on industry trends and future technology and market opportunities.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Successful experience architecting and delivering server/storage/converged products to market.
• Excellent Customer presentation skills.
• Interface and interact with large OEM customers on ongoing product related issues and new product design concepts.
• A broad knowledge of current digital and analogue components.
• Successful New Product Introduction (NPI) launch.
• Extensive knowledge of system level power, cooling, mechanical, SW/FW and electrical design integration and engineering trade-offs.
• Prior participation in industry groups and associations is desired.
• System level integration, interoperability and test experience is desired.
• System level manufacturing test experience is desired.

Physical Demands

• International travel required, approximately 4-6 trips per year.
• Domestic travel to support customer and internal meetings as required.

Typical Experience

• Minimum of 15 years Server and/or AI/ML accelerator hardware design experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of AI Infrastructure system design experience.
• Experience with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, or other modern GPU accelerators and support systems.

Typical Education

• BS in Electrical Engineering required; MSEE preferred.
• Advanced studies in Business/Operations/Technology are recommended.

Location

This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

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.