Staff Engineer, Hardware Design (PCB Layout)

Celestica; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica is seeking a Staff Engineer, Hardware Design (PCB Layout) in Austin to lead high-density PCB layouts, optimize routing, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across manufacturing, reliability, and design reviews.

You will drive DFx, maintain IPC/EMI compliance, mentor junior designers, and deliver robust fabrication data and BOMs for production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or related field.
• 10+ years of PCB layout/design experience in high-density boards.
• Strong knowledge of SI/PI, high-speed routing and PDN optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex board design, routing and component placement for multi-layer PCBs (12–28+ layers).
• Route high-speed digital/analog/mixed-signal circuits with impedance control and length matching.
• Collaborate with Power Design Team to optimize Power Delivery Network and thermal management.
• Work with electrical, mechanical, and thermal engineers to improve form factor and system performance.
• Ensure DFx/DFM/ DFA/DFT compliance and generate manufacturing release packages (Gerber/ODB++, BOM).
• Maintain IPC/EMI/EMC compliance and provide technical guidance during design reviews.
• Mentor junior layout designers and participate in project planning and scheduling.

Skills

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Cadence Allegro

HDI technologies

PCB fabrication processes

IPC standards

EMC/ EMI layout

Communication

Project coordination

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Allegro

Job description

Summary

The Staff Engineer, Hardware Design (PCB Layout) will work with cross functional teams with other PCB Layout 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. Provide support throughout the manufacturing process of the electrical/mechanical system that they have designed.

Req ID: 140696

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: Texas

City: Austin

HPS-NA

Detailed Description

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

• Complex Board Design: Execute the layout, routing and component placement of high-density, multi-layer PCBs (often 12 to 28+ layers) using advanced CAD software (e.g., Cadence Allegro).
• High-Speed & Constraints: Route high-speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuits while strictly adhering to complex design constraints, including impedance control, length matching, and differential pairs.
• Power Delivery & Constraints: Collaborate with the Power Design Team to implement and optimize the Power Delivery Network (PDN). This involves executing board layouts that satisfy voltage drop (IR) and impedance targets, optimizing decoupling capacitor placements, and managing thermal constraints in high-current AI hardware designs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside electrical, mechanical, and thermal engineers to optimize board layout for form factor, thermal management, and overall system performance.
• Design for Manufacturing (DFx): Ensure all design comply with Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Testability (DFT) guidelines.
• Documentation & Release: Generate, review and manage complete manufacturing release packages, including Gerber/ODB++ files, fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, pick-and-place data, and Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Compliance & Standards: Apply deep knowledge of IPC standards and ensure layouts comply with EMI/EMC regulations and safety standards.
• Mentorship: Lead layout design reviews, establish internal best practices, and provide technical guidance to junior layout designers.
• Customer & Project Coordination: Actively participates in design reviews and offers technical feedback to develop product requirements. Additionally, participates in project planning and scheduling, providing input on design issues, quality, and materials.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Strong understanding of signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) principles
• Familiarity with blind/buried vias, micro-vias, and HDI (High-Density interconnect) technologies
• Thorough understanding of the PCB fabrication and PCBA assembly processes
• Expert-level proficiency in industry-standard PCB design tools (e.g., Cadence Allegro 22.x and up is preferred)
• Strong knowledge of PCB & PCBA manufacturing process
• Excellent knowledge of industry and quality standards, knowledge of IPC standards is preferred
• Strong knowledge of IT platforms and database design
• Familiar with EMC & EMI layout requirements
• Able to summarize the layout experience from the customer’s requirements
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple overlapping project schedules in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills for interacting with customers, vendors, and internal teams

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

• 10+ years of dedicated experience in PCB layout and design, specifically with complex enterprise, high-performance data storage, networking infrastructure, or server and telecommunications hardware.

Typical Education

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field (or equivalent extensive industry experience).

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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

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.

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.