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Senior Staff Engineer, Hardware Design TPL

Date: Aug 7, 2025

Location: San Jose, CA, US

Senior Staff Engineer, Hardware Design
Req ID: 127748
Band: 11
Region: Americas
Country: United States
State/Province: California
City: San Jose

As a Technical Product Leader within Celestica's Hardware Platform Solutions design team, you'll play a pivotal strategic role, acting as the crucial link between engineering innovation and business objectives. You'll be instrumental in defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our hardware platforms. This involves expertly translating complex user needs and market demands into precise technical requirements, and then meticulously overseeing the entire product development lifecycle. This position demands a robust technical background in hardware, proven leadership skills, and an exceptional ability to collaborate seamlessly with diverse cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of our cutting-edge hardware products.

Detailed Description

• Lead and participate in ideation and concept design; creating new and reusable hardware architectures for current and new product categories
• Engage with strategic customers to represent our hardware products at a deep technical level
• Provide strategic direction for the planning, design, and architecture of high quality, complex hardware systems
• Work with different constituencies including Product Group Technology Leads, Product Managers, Marketing, Sales/SEs to define technology roadmap
• Understand compute industry trends and in partnership with senior leadership assisting in developing the strategic direction for innovative technology initiatives
• Work closely with the product teams (engineers and product line managers) to bridge this technology roadmap into hardware products
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) with ability to impart industry trends through sharing knowledge and mentoring across Hardware Product Solutions (HPS)
• Selection of key components for optimal design and cost efficiency for successful market adoption
• Review and analyze new technologies and trends, and summarize results for presentation to technical and non-technical audiences
• Engage with strategic customers to represent our hardware products at a deep technical level
• Understand the customer use case to drive internal innovation
• 12+ years experience
• Proficient in all compute hardware architectures including datacenter, telecommunication, enterprise and service provider. A strong understanding of compute components and protocols
• Experience with AMD and Intel GPU, Broadcom DNX, Intel/AMO processor, hard disk, SSD, SAS/SATA, PCIE, CXL, Ax86
• Excellent interpersonal skills, well organized, self-motivated person, strong customer service, project, and analytical skills
• Experience in early product concepts and hardware architecture development through prototyping, evaluation of new designs and system architecture and debug
• Solid understanding of security elements
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to create and analyze architectural and product specifications enabling hardware product development

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

• 12+ years' experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/ Computer Engineering/ Physics
• Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Salary Range

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. Salary Range: $150,735-236,250

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.

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.

Nearest Major Market: San Jose
Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto

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