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# HW/SW Technical Program Lead

- **Company:** Celestica International Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $141,000.0 - $221,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** BIOS, Software Debugging, Firmware, Performance Tuning
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.celestica.com/talentcommunity/apply/1407125333/?locale=en_US

## About the Role

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

## Description

This individual acts as end-to-end technical "authority" and liaison across HW and SW domains for the hyperscale customers. This role is responsible for guiding daily execution, driving strategic and tactical engineering alignment, remediating customer issues, and maintaining operational trust across the full lifecycle of infrastructure delivery and support. The "Uber" TPL is accountable for orchestration of flawless technical operations and ensuring an exceptional customer experience., * Serves as a single accountable technical owner for all aspects of customer across firmware, BIOS/BMC, OS integration, platform hardware, diagnostics, and telemetry

 * Drives technical excellence from design through deployment
 * Drives all HW & SW engineering workstreams and coordinates activities within programs
 * Acts as the final technical TPL escalation point for platform-level issues impacting delivery to customers
 * Has a direct path to Executive escalation and support
 * Owns incident response leadership for both HW and SW problems- coordinating root cause analysis, corrective action plans, and continuous improvements
 * Leads bring-up, debug, and release processes, ensuring functional alignment between HW and SW stacks
 * Champions interoperability, performance tuning, and issues traceability across layers
 * Coordinates activities and planning between HW, SW, programs, PMOs, and GCBU

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.


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