Staff Engineer, Power Integrity

Celestica Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 112,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Staff Engineer, Power Integrity to lead PDN design, power delivery modeling, and validation for boards and packages, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure robust, manufacturable solutions.

The role requires advanced degrees and extensive experience with EM tools, PCB/package design, and data-driven optimization to meet stringent impedance and voltage droop specs.

Qualifications

• MS with at least 7 years of experience, or PhD with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of power integrity, VR technologies, and PDN modeling with PCB design practices.
• Experience with cross-functional teams and manufacturing involvement.

Responsibilities

• Research target impedance, transient droop, phase margin, and stability analyses.
• Define PDN architecture and design solutions for boards and systems.
• Lead power delivery modeling for interposers, packages, PCBs, and VRs to meet specs.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to design end‑to‑end power delivery systems.
• Provide guidelines for implementation to PCB, package, and system design teams.
• Lead hardware correlation on component, board, and system level.

Skills

Power integrity

PDN modeling

PCB design

EM simulation

Education

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. in Power/Analog/related

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Tools

LTSPICE

HSPICE

Spectre

AMS

Simplis

HFSS

nWave

Q3D

nApex

Job description

Location: Austin, TX, US

Summary

The Staff Engineer, Power Integrity develops new electrical systems/circuits for various applications. You will research system ideas and draw up plans for these systems, and capture them in schematics and system specifications. Other responsibilities will be testing, simulation, validating and qualifying the systems and make adjustments as needed. You will need to provide support throughout the manufacturing of the electrical systems that have been designed. The role will work in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. You will enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.

Detailed Description

Perform target impedance analysis, transient voltage droop, phase margin, and stability analysis.

Define PDN architecture and design solutions for boards and systems across a wide range of power specifications.

Lead power delivery modeling, simulation, and characterization for interposers, packages, PCBs, and voltage regulators (VRs) to meet impedance and voltage droop specifications.

Collaborate with multi-functional teams to design end-to-end power delivery systems.

Provide guidelines for implementation and feedback to PCB, package, system design and other cross-functional teams.

Lead hardwarecorrelation on component, board and system level.

Develop test suites for system-level validation of power domain design margin.

Provide power integrity support through the design process.

Drive initiatives to improve processes, procedures and quality.

Minimum Qualifications

Proven technical understanding of power supply architectures, VR technologies, power distribution network (PDN) modeling and PCB design practices.

Working knowledge in 3D/2D EM simulation tools, electromagnetic modeling, and transmission line theory.Skills with associated tools for 2.5D (PowerDC, PowerSI, SIWave, OptimizePI, Sentinel-PI, nSys), 3D Full wave (HFSS, nWave), quasi-static tools (Q3D, nApex) is required.

Familiar with LTSPICE, HSPICE, Spectre, AMS, and Simplis models or equivalent ones for system-level transient droop analysis.

M.S. with at least 7 years of experience, or PhD with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

M.S and or Ph.D. with academic background in Power/Signal Integrity, Power Electronics and Analog Circuit Design.

Understanding of power supply architecture covering multi-stage/multi-phase VR technologies, PCB and package design trends and trade-offs,and chip supply design including low- and high-power design methodologies.

Experience in developing PI/SI methodologies, modeling PDN from system to die, and conducting lab correlation/validation.

Familiar with Python coding and AI/ML-assisted automation.

Experience in design and analysis of product power supply solution.

Deep understanding of VR design principles and the system environment's electrical performance.

Good knowledge of 3D/2D EM simulation tools, electromagnetics, and transmission line theory.

Familiar with lab equipment including but not limited to VNA, real-time scope, spectrum analyzer.

Work and communicate efficiently in cross-functional teams.

Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Work independently, teach and mentor others, and innovate.

Experience in driving initiatives that improved process, procedures and quality.Experience on PCB or PKG design tools(Allegro, Xpedition)

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

M.S. with at least 7 years of experience, or PhD with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

Typical Education

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

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

$112,000 - $196,000 USD/year

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Notes

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.
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.

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Austin

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