Staff Engineer, Software; Austin

Staff Engineer, Software

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 Smart

NICs, enabling high-performance networking and offloading critical workloads from the main CPU.

• You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on Smart
  
  NICs, 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

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

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

• Design and implement security features for Smart
  
  NIC 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.

• 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 Smart
  
  NICs:
  Prior experience developing software for Smart
  
  NICs 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

• 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.

• 10 to 15 years

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

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.

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