Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Celestica is a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform, and supply chain solutions, partnering with top companies to tackle complex challenges. They are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer specializing in AI/ML to define architecture for competitive AI systems and lead a design team in AI/ML infrastructure. The role involves extensive engagement in system architecture, technology research, and maintaining technical relationships with suppliers and partners.
Responsibilities
- Define Complex AI/ML infrastructure platform solutions and lead a multi-disciplined team to bring to implementation. Extensive and focused engagement through EVT, phasing out thereafter. Ensure overall design quality metrics are met
- Develop and maintain close technical relationships with suppliers/partners on product roadmaps and technologies
- Lead RFQ technical responses and Celestica platform concept development efforts as appropriate
- Provide effective trade-off analysis and competitive guidance to engineering teams and customers
- Deliverables include System Requirements Documents (SRD), requirement compliance assessments, and Technical proposals
- Act as a primary technical interface between Celestica and our customers, particularly in technical escalation
- Provide technical support to business development teams to assist in the winning of new business
- Participate in the selection and hiring of design team resources as required
- Identify and Champion process improvement efforts as needed
- Participate in standards committees and industry groups as assigned
- Prepare and present technical presentations to customers, industry groups, tradeshows, etc
- Maintain current on industry trends and future technology and market opportunities
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Minimum of 10 years Server and/or AI/ML accelerator hardware design experience
- Minimum of 5 years of AI Infrastructure system design experience
- Experience with Nvidia, AMD, and/or Intel GPU accelerators and support systems
- Successful experience architecting and delivering server/storage/converged products to market
- Excellent Customer presentation skills. Interface and interact with large OEM customers on ongoing product related issues and new product design concepts
- A broad knowledge of current digital and analogue components
- Successful New Product Introduction (NPI) launch
- Extensive knowledge of system level power, cooling, mechanical, SW/FW and electrical design integration and engineering trade-offs
- BS in Electrical Engineering required
- Experience working with Asian based design teams is desired
- Systems SW experience in related fields is desired
- Prior participation in industry groups and associations is desired
- System level integration, interoperability and test experience is desired
- System level manufacturing test experience is desired
- MSEE preferred
Company Overview
Celestica is a manufacturing firm that provides design, hardware platform, and supply chain solutions to a multitude of industries. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.celestica.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Celestica has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2026, 13 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 3 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.