Staff Engineer, Software; Austin

10 - Staff Engineer, Software (Austin)

Date: Oct 16, 2025

Location: Merrimack, TX, US

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

The role will include the below responsibilities

Software Development
:

• Design and implement drivers, application software that drive next generation CPU and GPU
• Develop, augment and maintain software libraries for computing on GPU
• Optimize code for performance, efficiency, and low latency
• Innovate new ideas in conjunction with networking engineers to optimize overall data center efficiency

Hardware Integration
:

• Board bringup and validation of all low-level interactions with hardware
• Drivers to monitor the health of the board
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-software interaction issues

Security
:

• Design and implement features for verification of trusted software like secure boot
• 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
• Explain the value addition the software brings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Leadership
:

• Lead the junior teams to solve technical problems.
• Review and maintain quality of code going into production.
• Architect software applications that will work across multiple technology generations with minimal changes.
• Strong programming skills:
  
  Proficiency in C, C++ and other low-level programming languages.
• Operating system knowledge:
  Experience with Linux driver kernel development is a must. Candidate should have strong experience in Linux kernel memory management, interrupts, drivers etc
• 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 at the rack level.
• Problem-solving skills:
  
  Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience with data center deployments:
  Prior experience in data center architectures, developing and maintaining software for deployments is a plus
• Experience with GPU programming:
  Prior experience GPU libraries like CUDA and ROCm is a plus
• Clear Communication:
  Proven ability to articulate requirements and vision to large and diverse audience through written documents like architecture specifications and verbal presentations in technical forums is required.

• 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.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

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.