Principal, Design Engineering - Technical Program Lead (TPL)

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

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Principal, Design Engineering - Technical Program Lead (TPL)

Date: Jul 22, 2026

Location: Austin, TX, US

Summary

The Principal Design Engineer TPL will serve as the lead in the hardware design implementation and management of compute systems. Primary responsibilities include driving compute strategies and recommending industry best practices for compute solutions. Additionally this role will support the design and deployment of effective compute systems and research new and emerging technologies particularly in the field of AI.

Detailed Description

• Lead and participate in ideation and concept design creating new and reusable hardware architectures for current and future product categories.
• Provide strategic direction for the planning design and architecture of high quality complex hardware systems.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including Product Group Technology Leads Product Managers Marketing and Sales/SEs to define the technology roadmap.
• Work closely with product teams (engineers and product line managers) to translate the technology roadmap into concrete hardware products.
• Analyze compute industry trends and partner with senior leadership to develop the strategic direction for innovative technology initiatives.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) sharing knowledge on industry trends and mentoring teams across Hardware Product Solutions (HPS).
• Select key components to optimize design and cost efficiency for successful market adoption.
• Review and analyze new technologies summarizing results for presentation to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Engage with strategic customers to represent our hardware products at a deep technical level using their use cases to drive internal innovation.
• 12+ years of experience in hardware design or a related field.
• Proficiency in compute hardware architectures including datacenter telecommunications enterprise and service provider environments.
• Strong understanding of compute components and protocols.
• Hands on experience with AMD and Intel GPUs Broadcom DNX Intel/AMD processors HDDs SSDs SAS/SATA PCIe CXL and x86 architectures.
• Experience in rack level system design.
• Proven ability to drive early product concepts and hardware architecture development through prototyping evaluation of new designs system architecture and debugging.
• Ability to create and analyze architectural and product specifications to enable hardware product development.
• Solid understanding of hardware security elements.
• Strong soft skills: Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills. A self motivated highly organized professional with strong analytical and customer service abilities.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Physics
• Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Physical Demands

• 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.

Notes

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.
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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.
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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.

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