Senior Lead Software Engineer – Open BMC

Celestica

Senior Lead Software Engineer at Celestica designing software for board management controllers. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high quality software for data center environments.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Linux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, development and implementation of software for board management controllers and orchestration software
Provide technical leadership and direction to a sizable team of engineers
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

6 to 12 years of experience
Solid C programming skills
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

C programmingLinux kerneldevice driverIPCU-bootreal time OSBMCRedfishboard bringupfirmware development

Soft Skills

technical leadershipproject planningrisk managementcollaborationcontinuous improvement