Celestica
Director, Design Engineering (Austin)
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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 regular 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, as 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.
Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA. Region: Americas. Req ID: 129009.
Key Roles
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
Experience & Education 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.
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity 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.
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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 regular 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, as 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.
Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA. Region: Americas. Req ID: 129009.
Key Roles
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
Experience & Education 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.
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity 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.
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