Senior Lead Engineer, Software

Req ID: 122557 
Remote Position: No
Region: Americas 
Country: United States 
State/Province: Texas 
City:  Richardson 

General Overview

Functional Area:  Engineering        
Career Stream:  Design - Software Engineering
SAP Short Name:  SLE-ENG-DSE
Job Level:  Level 09
IC/MGR:  Individual Contributor        
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

Celestica is looking for a talented and passionate software engineers who can help drive 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.

Key Responsibilities

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

Collaboration:

• 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 

Leadership:

• Mentor and coach team members on the technical skills and approaches to solve problems. 
• Review and maintain quality of code going into production. 
   

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Strong programming skills: Proficiency in C, C++, P4 and other low-level programming languages. 
• Networking knowledge: Deep understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, etc.) and concepts
• 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 GPU programming: Prior experience GPU libraries like CUDA and ROCm is huge plus
• Experience with SmartNICs: Prior experience developing software for SmartNICs and understanding of cloud computing architectures and services is the 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

• 6 to 12 years

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or higher education in Engineering

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.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates