Principal, Design Engineering

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Job Summary:

Celestica is expanding its team and seeking talented, passionate Principal Software Engineers to contribute to their next-generation data center networking and AI compute blade systems. The Principal Engineer will be instrumental in designing, developing, and testing critical software for Compute, Switches, and Storage systems, ensuring robust and high-quality product development while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development and implementation of technical solutions for complex projects, involving multiple domains. Participate in project planning and scheduling.

• Global SME with comprehensive knowledge and industry recognition. Provides technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers.

• Take responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project (people, financials etc.)

• Review and interpret customer specifications and may act as primary customer contact.

• Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions. Develops deployment strategies and plans.

• Lead the deployment of strategic complex programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.

• May manage relationships with key vendors/partners

• You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on Compute, Networking and Storage appliances, enabling high-performance networking and computing applications at hyperscalers.

• Optimize code for performance, efficiency, and low latency

• Innovate new ideas in conjunction with networking and compute engineers to optimize overall data center efficiency

• Architect solutions for customer’s data center management needs working with multiple lower-level drivers, OS, libraries

• You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on Compute, Networking and Storage appliances, enabling high-performance networking and compute applications

• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-software interaction issues

• Analyze and optimize network performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions.

• Develop and implement performance testing methodologies and tools.

• Design and implement security features for Compute, Networking and Storage appliances software, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality

• Stay up-to-date on security best practices and vulnerability remediation

• Work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with engineers and peer functional leads from different disciplines to innovate solutions, triage issues and speed execution

• Work with product line management, customers and sales teams to understand requirements

• Explain the value addition software brings to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Mentor and coach team members on the technical skills and approaches to solve problems.

• Review and maintain quality of code going into production.

• Architect software applications that will work across multiple technology generations with minimal changes.

• Present innovation and value addition from our software in technical forums and customer interactions.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 15 to 20 years of experience

• Masters degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Strong programming skills: Proficiency in C, C and other low-level programming languages

• Deep understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, etc.) and concepts

• Experience with Linux driver kernel development is a plus

• Familiarity with main elements of CPU, XPU, memory, NICs, board monitoring elements is a must

• Ability to identify and resolve software and hardware issues

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Proven ability to articulate requirements and vision to large and diverse audience through written documents like architecture specifications and verbal presentations in technical forums is required

• Ability to manage/lead complex, multiple line engineering projects that may also involve other functions

• Demonstrate solid understanding of the technical, financial and people aspects of the project

• Ability to create financial plans for your projects, align them internally with your line of management and other functions and externally if needed

• Create project plans, profitability calculations, risk and sensitivity analysis, able to recognize barriers and mitigate profitability risks

• Fully knowledgeable about internal and external financial reporting, accounting and tax requirements relevant to your area of expertise

• Demonstrate 'People & Team Leadership Behaviors' as per Celestica Leadership Imperatives

• Ability to recognize project barriers and develop mitigation plans

• Coaching/Mentoring; Communication/Negotiation/Presentation; Creative Problem Solving; Customer Interaction/Stakeholder Management; Quality & Lean; Working Effectively with Others; D/PFMEA; 8D/Corrective Action; Equipment Safety; Design of Experiments (DOE)

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve hardware-software interaction issues

• Experience with GPU programming: Prior experience GPU is a plus

• Experience with Cloud Orchestration: Prior experience of Ansible/Terraform and understanding of cloud computing architectures and services is the plus

Company:

Celestica is a manufacturing firm that provides design, hardware platform, and supply chain solutions to a multitude of industries. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Celestica has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.