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Senior Lead Engineer, Software (BMC) 2

Celestica International LP

Req ID: 130122 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 
State/Province: California 
City:  San Jose 

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

The Senior Lead Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains software across all levels (firmware to application), adhering to established development processes (e.g., Agile) and product lifecycle standards. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to integrate feedback and ensure robust, high-quality product development.

Celestica is looking for a dynamic software engineer who is passionate about working closely with the HW/SW interface to enable management of a fleet of devices in tomorrow’s data center environments. The person needs be very conversant with board management controllers, low level drivers and capable of mentoring a team of engineers.

The Senior Lead Engineer, Software will work in cross functional teams with customers, product line management, manufacturing engineering, hardware engineering, quality assurance and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality software.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

  • Lead the design, development and implementation of software for board management controllers and orchestration software which will use the BMC to monitor and maintain a fleet of devices in tomorrow’s data center environment.
  • Provide technical leadership and direction to a sizable team of engineers. Should be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas.
  • Review and interpret customer requirements/specifications and may act as primary customer contract.
  • Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions.
  • Do project planning and raise warnings to management about risks to projects
  • Develops deployment strategies and plans.
  • May manage relationships with key vendors/partners.
  • Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with customers, users, project managers and other engineers .
  • Provide recommendations for continuous improvement

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Prior Technical Knowledge

  • Solid C programming skills with working C++knowledge
  • In-depth understanding of Linux kernel, device driver, IPC, U-boot.
  • Familiarity with Linux application development. Knowledge of Real time OS like ThreadX is a plus.
  • Knowledge of BMC including IPMI, SDR, SEL, FRU records, SOL, IPMB, Side-band LAN, KCS and KVM.
  • Knowledge of Redfish and other management protocols.
  • Experience with board bringup.
  • Working knowledge of BMC related Hardware such as ARM, BMC chip (AST 2500, AST2600, Pilot 4 etc.), HW-monitor and Super-IO, NC-SI NIC, phy.
  • Working knowledge of common bus such as I2C, IPMB, PMBUS, SPI, LPC, UART, JTAG.
  • Experience with OpenBMC is a plus.
  • Experience with one or more of the following standards/technologies: SCSI, SES, RAID, SAS, SATA, SSD, SMART, PCI Express, HBA, network protocol TCP/UDP, etc is a plus.
  • Experience with PSoC or MCU firmware development is a plus.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

  • Leadership - Demonstrate "People & Team Leadership Behaviors" as per Celestica Leadership Imperatives.
  • The following are required: Coaching/Mentoring; Communication/Negotiation/Presentation; Creative Problem Solving; Customer Interaction/Stakeholder Management;
  • Knowledge of the following areas are a plus: Quality & Lean; D/PFMEA; 8D/Corrective Action; Equipment Safety; Design of Experiments (DOE). 

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 consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Salary Range

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate. Salary Range: $109,654- $162,212k Annually 

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.

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