{"id":3190048,"url":"https://alion.io/job/celestica-principal-engineer-power-design","title":"Principal Engineer, Power Design","company":{"id":58064,"name":"Celestica","domain":"celestica.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/celestica","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Jose, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":127000,"max_usd":258000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1961},"experience_years_min":11,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansys SIwave","optional":false},{"name":"Cadence Sigrity","optional":false},{"name":"LTspice","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-23T02:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-23","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T09:03:34Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Req ID: 133602\nRegion: Americas\nCountry: USA\nState/Province: California\nCity: San Jose\nSummary\nThe Principal Power Engineer develops new electrical systems/circuits for various applications. Research system ideas and draw up plans for these systems, and capture them in schematics and system specifications. Test, simulate, validate and qualify their systems and make adjustments as needed. Provide support throughout the manufacturing of the electrical systems they have designed.\nThe Principal Power Engineer works in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. Enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.\nDetailed Description\nPerforms tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:\nWork autonomously and take initiatives to manage team priorities\nProvide technical guidance and support to Staff and Sr. engineers\nDesign, develop and implement technical solutions for complex projects. Participate in project planning and scheduling.\nPropose innovative solutions for performance, reliability, and features of system or product.\nGlobal SME with comprehensive knowledge and industry recognition. Provides technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers.\nReviews and interprets customer specifications and may act as primary customer contact.\nAnalyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions. Develop and lead deployment strategies and plans.\nLead and manage schematic design, Bills of material, power tree, drawings, board layout, and cross-functional design reviews\nLead power bring-up, debugging, and support for manufacturing assembly, and deployment\nTakes responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project (people, financials etc.)\nLead relationships with key vendors and partners.\nKeep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations, and share within team\nLiaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams.\nAnalyze and create reports and documentation of specifications, design, testing, debugging, and etc.\nMay be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas.\n\nKnowledge/Skills/Competencies\nRefer to technical skills below\nConsidered a Subject Matter Expert in the area of power design, such as single/multi-phase DC/DC converter, point-of-load converter, LDO, MOSFETs, magnetics, hot-swap circuitry of how-swap controller, load switches, current sense circuit and amplifier, and etc\nExperienced in designing power systems for networking, compute, or storage products\nExperienced in high-current, low-voltage power subsystems for CPU, GPU, ASIC, SoC, and FPGA\nExperienced in PCB stack-up, power planes, and tools used to simulate voltage gradients\nFamiliar with schematic capture and CAD layout tools or equivalent ones\nProficient with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, PSPICE, and LTSPICE, or equivalent tools\nExperienced with end-to-end power delivery network design, and simulation using circuit simulation tools, Sigrity PowerDC/SI, ANSYS SIWave or equivalent, and board level correlation\nKnowledge of high-density power modules and Vertical Power Delivery (Knowledge on Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) is a plus)\nExperienced with power integrity evaluation\nExperienced with design and troubleshooting of power management interfaces such as PMBus, AVS, SVID and SVI2/3.\nExperienced with defining specifications and validation of power connectors, cable assemblies and fuses\nFamiliar with NPI hardware design and deployment cycle\nExperienced with development of test automation for power validation that is a plus.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to present to various audiences effectively\nPhysical Demands\nDuties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.\nDuties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. \nRepetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.\nOccasional travel may be required.\nTypical Experience\n11+ years' releveant work experience with 3+ in a leadership capacity.\nTypical Education\nBachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.\nEducational Requirements may vary by Geography\nNotes\nThis 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.\nCelestica 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.\nThis 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.\nCelestica is an E-Verify employer.\nCOMPANY OVERVIEW:\nCelestica (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.\nCelestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.\nCelestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6709,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":11,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electronics Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-24T01:25:05Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/celestica-principal-engineer-power-design","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/celestica-principal-engineer-power-design.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T13:30:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":18193,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":58064},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58064"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcelestica-principal-engineer-power-design"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcelestica-principal-engineer-power-design"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcelestica-principal-engineer-power-design"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/celestica-principal-engineer-power-design\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcelestica-principal-engineer-power-design"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3190048}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"celestica.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3190048},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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