Principal Design Engineer & Tech Program Lead — Compute

Celestica Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal Design Engineer—Technical Program Lead to drive hardware architecture and compute strategy for data center products.

The role collaborates across product groups to translate a technology roadmap into tangible hardware platforms, with emphasis on performance, security, and cost efficiency. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hardware design experience.
• Proficiency across compute architectures for datacenter, telecom and enterprise environments.
• Hands-on with AMD/Intel GPUs, CPUs, HDDs/SSDs and PCIe/CXL.
• Translate roadmaps into concrete hardware products with product teams.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead ideation and design of reusable hardware architectures.
• Define architecture directions for high-quality hardware systems.
• Collaborate with Product Leads, Managers, Marketing and Sales to map tech roadmaps.
• Translate roadmaps into concrete hardware products with engineers.
• Analyze industry trends and guide strategic technology initiatives.
• Mentor teams and share SME knowledge on trends in hardware.
• Select components to optimize design and cost efficiency for market adoption.
• Review new technologies and present findings to mixed audiences.

Skills

Hardware design

Compute architectures

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic roadmap planning

Strong communication

Mentoring SME knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Physics

Tools

AMD GPUs

Intel GPUs/CPUs

PCIe/CXL

HDD/SSD

Job description

Celestica Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal Design Engineer—Technical Program Lead to drive hardware architecture and compute strategy for data center products.

The role collaborates across product groups to translate a technology roadmap into tangible hardware platforms, with emphasis on performance, security, and cost efficiency. Strong leadership and communication are essential.