Staff Engineer, Electrical Design

Celestica; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Lead Engineer, Electrical Design to drive the design and development of high‑speed electrical systems. You will create schematics, BOMs and diagrams, lead a team, and coordinate with customers, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure robust product quality.

The role requires deep expertise in PCB design, signal integrity, and lab validation. You will collaborate across engineering and project leadership to advance programs while maintaining industry

Qualifications

• PCB design fundamentals, single-ended and differential signals.
• Manage signal integrity challenges: loss, impedance, crosstalk.
• Up to 50Gbps signaling; differential signaling.
• Use component models and simulate system models.
• Simulate digital interfaces and analog paths.
• 2D/3D simulation tools like ADS, HFSS, Sigrity.
• Electrical length calculations for signal matching.
• Interpret frequency and time-domain signals.
• Generate data-eye diagrams up to 50Gbps.
• PCB stack-up design and high-frequency materials.
• Lab measurements: TDR, VNA.
• Develop test fixtures.
• Balance cost vs performance.
• Flex circuit design for high-speed signaling.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and implementation of technical solutions in multiple domains.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers.
• Review, interpret and may negotiate customer requirements/specifications.
• Lead deployment of strategic programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• Proactively promote industry best practices.
• May manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
• Design, modify and implement systems that meet customer and Celestica needs.
• Testing, simulation and measuring the performance of systems.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations.
• Solve complex problems.
• Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams.
• Analyze and interpret data and information.
• Recommend modifications for systems.
• Create reports and documentation.

Skills

PCB design fundamentals

Signal integrity management

High-speed signaling

ADS/HFSS/Sigrity

Allegro layout tools

Data-eye analysis

Test fixture development

Vendor liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Touchstone models

ADS

HFSS

Sigrity

Allegro

Job description

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: Texas

City: Austin

Summary

The Senior Lead Engineer, Electrical Design develops new electrical systems/circuits for various applications. Research system ideas and draw up plans for these systems, and capture them in schematics and system specifications. Test, simulate, validate and qualify their systems and make adjustments as needed. Provide support throughout the manufacturing of the electrical systems they have designed.

The Senior Lead Engineer, Electrical Design works in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. Enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead the design, development and implementation of technical solutions in multiple domains. Participate in project planning and scheduling.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers. May be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas
• Review, interpret and may negotiate customer requirements/specifications and provide customer feedback
• Lead the deployment of strategic programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
• Proactively promote industry best practices
• May manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
• Design, modify and implement systems that meet customer and Celestica needs. E.g. creation of Schematics, Bills of material, diagrams, drawings, etc.
• Testing, simulation and measuring (including troubleshooting) the performance of systems
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations
• Solve complex problems
• Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams.
• Analyze and interpret data and information
• Recommend modifications for systems
• Create reports and documentation
• May be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Experience in PCB design fundamentals, including single-ended and differential signals.
• Proficient in managing signal integrity challenges such as signal loss, impedance control, and crosstalk (near-end and far-end).
• Experience with single-ended and differential signaling up to 50Gbps.
• Skilled in working with component models (Touchstone files) and cascading them to create comprehensive system models for simulation.
• Experienced in simulating digital interfaces (FPGA to DRAM, SERDES) and analog paths (PCB, connector, cable from signal driver to DUT).
• Proficient with 2D and 3D simulation tools (e.g., ADS, ANSYS HFSS, Sigrity).
• Capable of electrical length calculations for signal matching.
• Familiar with interpreting signals in both frequency (S-parameter) and time domains to assess suitability for applications.
• Proficient in generating and interpreting data-eye diagrams up to 50Gbps for NRZ and PAM4.
• Proficient with Allegro or similar layout tools and schematics.
• Expertise in PCB stack-up design, considering fabrication limitations and cost trade-offs.
• Experience with high-frequency board materials.
• Significant experience in measuring signal performance in the lab, including TDR and VNA measurements.
• Able to develop test fixtures, from custom test boards to ad hoc probing solutions for troubleshooting.
• Experienced in balancing cost vs. performance tradeoffs in signal path design.
• Experience with flex circuit design for high-speed signaling.

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.

Typical Experience

• 4 to 6 years in a similar role or industry.

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

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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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.