Senior Director, Design Engineering - AI​/ML System Architect

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Date: Feb 19, 2026

This position is for a Senior Director Engineer, AI/ML System Architect. As system architect,one will define the architecture of leading and competitive AI systems, lead new technology research, study market trend, customers interface and lead Celestica’s design team in the AI/ML infrastructure space. Although the position is primarily a hardware based, the candidate must have strong knowledge in AI systems design including AI training and inference workloads and performance demands, as well as compute, connectivity,management, power, and cooling subsystems.

• Define Complex AI/ML infrastructure platform solutions and lead a multi-disciplined team to bring to implementation. Extensive and focused engagement through EVT,phasing out thereafter. Ensure overall design quality metrics are met.
• Develop and maintain close technical relationships with suppliers/partners on productroadmaps and technologies.
• Lead RFQ technical responses and Celestica platform concept development efforts as appropriate.
• Provide effective trade-off analysis and competitive guidance to engineering teams and customers.
• Deliverables include System Requirements Documents (SRD), requirement compliance assessments, and Technical proposals.
• Act as a primary technical interface between Celestica and our customers, particularly in technical escalation.
• Provide technical support to business development teams to assist in the winning of new business.
• Participate in the selection and hiring of design team resources as required.
• Identify and Champion process improvement efforts as needed.
• Participate in standards committees and industry groups as assigned.
• Prepare and present technical presentations to customers, industry groups, trade shows,etc.
• Maintain current on industry trends and future technology and market opportunities.
• Successful experience architecting and delivering server/storage/converged products tomarket.
• Excellent Customer presentation skills. Interface and interact with large OEM customers on ongoing product related issues and new product design concepts.
• A broad knowledge of current digital and analogue components.
• Extensive knowledge of system level power, cooling, mechanical, SW/FW and electrical design integration and engineering trade-offs.
• Prior participation in industry groups and associations is desired.
• System level integration, interoperability and test experience is desired.
• System level manufacturing test experience is desired

• International travel required, approximately 4-6 trips per year.
• Domestic travel to support customer and internal meetings as required.

• Minimum of 15years Server and/or AI/ML accelerator hardware design experience
• Minimum of 5 years of AI Infrastructure system design experience.
• Experience with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, or other modern GPU accelerators and support systems

• BS in Electrical Engineering required; MSEE preferred.
• Advanced studies in Business/Operations/Technology are recommended.

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.

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