10 - Staff Engineer, Software (Austin)

Celestica International LP
Austin, TX

Req ID: 129021
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Austin

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 engineers, 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.

The role also demands good knowledge on the advanced data networking techniques

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

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
  • 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

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

  • 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.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

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.

Posted 2026-02-21

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