Director, Design Engineering (Austin)

Req ID: 129009
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Austin

General Overview

Job Title: Director, Design Engineering

Summary

This position is for a Director, Design Engineering, responsible for leading and managing multiple programs and teams developing the firmware/Software for Celestica’s or Celestica’s customer products. The responsibility includes setting the strategic direction for the team, collaborating with different internal and external stakeholders for timely delivery of the products with the highest quality. The Director will be playing a key role in driving the New Product Initiatives by enabling the team to prepare the technical proposal, estimation and planning. Also the role will demand r egular interactions with executives and major customers. Interactions may involve program readouts, understanding and responding to customer technical and non-technical requirements and also responding professionally and proactively to potential problems/escalations. The candidate must be a thought leader and be forward thinking. Additionally, a s a people leader, he/she will hire and groom a team of high performing technical leads/architects/ /managers, working with them on objective setting and professional development initiatives. The candidates with prior experience in firmware development for storage, networking and AI compute servers, with strong leadership and excellent communication skills are suitable for this position.

Detailed Description

Performs the below key roles, but not limited to:

• Leads more than one high-performance software team that works with multiple layers of firmware from the lowest level drivers to higher layers of specialized stacks for AI Compute/AI storage products
• Takes the lead in NPIs
• Drives the KPIs and achieving agreed targets for key performance indicators
• Coaches and mentor the leads in understanding their strengths and weakness
• Reviews and interprets customer requirements/specifications and may act as primary customer contact.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including hardware design, other software teams, program and product management
• Sets yearly budgets, plans and goals for the team, give direction on expected performance, provide regular performance evaluations and ongoing feedback.
• Provides recommendations and drive continuous improvement on the objectives
• Works with the team to elevate strategic thinking, elevate domain skills
• Keeps up to date with the industry knowledge and contributes to tech forums

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Prior hands-on with LINUX Kernel/drivers, PCIe, BMC, BIOS/BSP
• CPU/GPU based compute server firmware development
• AI workload/Orchestration
• Networking Data path knowledge
• Strong SW engineering and product development experience

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

17+ years of experience with a minimum 10 years of experience as manager/Senior Manager/Director

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or higher education in Engineering

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.

This location is a US ITAR facility and these positions will involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, Celestica will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed.