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Senior Staff Packaging Engineer

Richardson, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jul 2026

About the role

Req ID: 135785
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Richardson

General Overview

Functional Area: Engineering
Career Stream:  Design Engineering Systems Applications
SAP Short Name: SSE-ENG-DSA
Job Level: Level 11
IC/MGR: Individual Contributor
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

This position is for a Senior Staff Packaging Engineer SME for Mechanical Concept Development. In this role, you will define the mechanical packaging and architecture of leading and competitive AI Rack systems, Compute, and Network systems, engage in new related technology research and study. As a member of the Customer Experience team, you will engage in deeper technical dialog and trade-off analysis with customers and key suppliers. Additionally, the candidate should have a working knowledge of the interdependencies from other design disciplines such as compute, connectivity, management, power, and cooling subsystems that impact good mechanical design.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

Develop packaging specifications, requirements, & design packaging enhancements.
Develop and maintain close technical relationships with suppliers/partners on product roadmaps and technologies.
Guide RFQ and Celestica platform L11 Packaging solutions
Provide effective mechanical trade-off analysis and competitive guidance to engineering teams and customers.
Support System Requirements Documents (SRD) development, requirement compliance assessments, and technical proposals.
Act as a primary technical SME with customers on related mechanical topics, concepts, trade-offs, and proposals.
Perform DFx review, and through understanding of should cost analysis
Identify and resolve cross-functional and cross-discipline architectural issues
Participate in standards committees and industry groups as assigned.
Prepare test plans, reports, and technical documentation of project work assigned.
Present frequently to customers, senior management, & peers
Knowledge of all Environmental Tests including vibration, mechanical shock, temperature, altitude, humidity.
Work directly with design engineering, structural analysis FEA personnel manufacturing, engineering, and commercial customers
Provide remote field test support to programs as needed
Review supplier packaging designs & quotes
Research & recommend new packaging solutions to global team & customers

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Bachelor or master degree in mechanical or Packaging engineering
Min. 10+ years of direct working experiences in electronic product mechanical design, related to AI compute / networking / rack level product design experience is a MUST.
Familiar with STD’s; MIL-STD-810, ISTA 2A/3, ASTM D4169 packaging testing and procedures, program & Supplier management, Environmental test, Shock, Vibrations, HALT, HASS, FMEA, Creo, ms-office
Experience with liquid cooling systems, modular chassis and cabled solutions
Experience with high volume production and high reliability and serviceable products
Good knowledge in material property, manufacturing process, tolerance analysis, stress analysis.
Good knowledge in sheet metal process, plastic injection molding.
Good knowledge in industrial standards and system level environmental compliance
Good skills with the use of CAD design tools, Creo is must
Good skills in Microsoft office software
Good team work attitude, collaboration and communication skills
Business travel possible (include the oversea travel)

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.