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Senior Lead Engineer, Software (Austin)

Celestica
Merrimack, NH Full Time
POSTED ON 12/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/19/2026
Req ID: 129170

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: New Hampshire

City: Merrimack

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. Added bonus if you have a broad skillset spanning Storage, Compute and Networking appliance development.

Detailed Description

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of our product development, working on challenging and impactful rewarding projects. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Lead Technical Solutions: Spearhead the design, development, and implementation of intricate technical solutions for complex x86 based appliance projects for data center and enterprise applications.
  • Drive Software Development: Write, debug and maintain software across various languages (C/C /Python) and software hierarchies (from firmware to application level), adhering to established development practices (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
  • Analyze and Optimize: Review customer requirements, analyze trade-offs in complex systems, recommend optimal solutions, and develop comprehensive deployment strategies.
  • Self Driven: Exhibits a proactive and engaged approach to all responsibilities, consistently taking the lead on new initiatives and contributing to a dynamic multi-site team environment.
  • Foster Collaboration: Work within cross-functional teams with other developers, customers, and manufacturing engineers to ensure robust and high-quality product development, incorporating feedback for design enhancements.
  • Build & Maintain: Design, develop, and analyze tests and test-automation suites, and provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements for existing systems and platforms.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

What You'll Bring

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong blend of technical expertise and leadership capabilities, demonstrated by:

  • Project Management Expertise: The ability to manage and lead complex, multiple task engineering projects, understand and drive the technical aspects, and be able to debug/develop mitigation plans for barriers.
  • Strong Communication & Collaboration: Excellent coaching, mentoring, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, with a commitment to working effectively within teams and with stakeholders within and outside of the organization.
  • Problem-Solving & Quality: A knack for creative problem-solving, along with familiarity with Quality & Lean methodologies, D/PFMEA, and 8D/Corrective Action is a plus.

Core Technical Skills

To excel in this role, you should possess strong proficiency in one or more areas highlighted below:

  • Programming Languages: C, C , Python
  • Embedded Systems: Advanced hands-on knowledge of x86-based Linux embedded systems/appliances
  • Board Support Packages (BSPs): Expertise in developing and working with BSPs
  • Diagnostics: Solid understanding and experience in specifying and developing diagnostic applications to ship product in high volume
  • Software Development Kits (SDKs): Proficient in utilizing SDK for AI Accelerators, Network Processing Units (NPU) and Embedded platforms
  • BIOS: Working knowledge of system BIOS and software, ability to debug complex issues and deliver SW patches
  • BMC: Working knowledge of Yocto/OpenBMC, ability to debug complex issues and deliver SW patches

Other Nice To Haves

  • In-depth understanding of Linux kernel, device driver, IPC, U-boot.
  • Familiarity with Linux application development.
  • Knowledge of BMC including IPMI, SDR, SEL, FRU records, SOL, IPMB, Side-band LAN, KCS and KVM.
  • Knowledge of Redfish and other management protocols.
  • 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 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.

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.

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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