10 - Staff Engineer, Software 1 (Austin)

Celestica Inc.; Merrimack (NH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Merrimack, NH is seeking a Staff Engineer, Software to design and develop software for SmartNICs. The role requires strong programming skills, a deep understanding of networking protocols, and experience mentoring junior engineers. This position offers a chance to innovate in AI and networking, contributing to high-performance data center solutions.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience with Linux driver kernel development is a plus.
• Familiarity with CPU, DPU, memory, NICs is a must.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and testing software for SmartNICs.
• Optimizing code for performance and efficiency.
• Troubleshooting hardware-software interaction issues.

Skills

Proficiency in C, C++, P4

Networking knowledge (TCP/IP, Ethernet)

Debugging and testing skills

Problem-solving skills

Experience with SmartNICs

Experience with GPU programming (CUDA, ROCm)

Education

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Job description

10 - Staff Engineer, Software 1 (Austin)

Location: Merrimack, TX, US

General Overview

Job Title: Staff Engineer, Software
Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Design - Software Engineering
Job Code: SEN-ENG-DSE
Job Band: 10
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

Celestica is looking for a talented and passionate software engineer who can help drive the next generation data center and AI compute blades, to join our team. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on SmartNICs, enabling high-performance networking and offloading critical workloads from the main CPU.

Detailed Description

Software Development:

• You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on SmartNICs, enabling high-performance networking and offloading critical workloads from the main CPU.
• Optimize code for performance, efficiency, and low latency
• Innovate new ideas in conjunction with networking engineers to optimize overall data center efficiency

Hardware Integration:

• You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on SmartNICs, enabling high-performance networking and offloading critical workloads from the main CPU.
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-software interaction issues

Performance Optimization:

• Analyze and optimize network performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions.
• Develop and implement performance testing methodologies and tools.

Security:

• Design and implement security features for SmartNIC software, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality
• Stay up-to-date on security best practices and vulnerability remediation
• Work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with engineers and peer functional leads from different disciplines to innovate solutions, triage issues and speed execution
• Work with product line management, customers and sales teams to understand requirements
• Explain the value addition software brings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Leadership:

• Provide technical guidance to the junior members in the team
• Review and maintain quality of code going into production.
• Present innovation and value addition from our software in technical forums and customer interactions
• Strong programming skills: Proficiency in C, C++, P4 and other low-level programming languages.
• Networking knowledge: Deep understanding of data plane and networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, etc.)
• Operating system knowledge: Experience with Linux driver kernel development is a plus
• Hardware experience: Familiarity with main elements of CPU, DPU, memory, NICs, board monitoring elements is a must
• Debugging and testing skills: Ability to identify and resolve software and hardware issues.
• Problem-solving skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience with SmartNICs: Prior experience developing software for SmartNICs and understanding of cloud computing architectures and services is a plus
• Experience with GPU programming: Familiarity with GPU libraries like CUDA and ROCm is a plus

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

• 10 to 15 years

Typical Education

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

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
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.

This location is a US ITAR facility and these positions will involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, Celestica will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed.