08 - Lead Engineer, Software

General Overview

Functional Area:  Engineering        
Career Stream:  Design - Software Engineering
SAP Short Name:  LEN-ENG-DSE
Job Level:  Level 08
IC/MGR:  Individual Contributor        
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

BMC Firmware Engineer
Department: GDS, Software – BMC Team
Keywords: BMC, IPMI, DCMI, SDR, I2C, Storage, Server, Switch, Linux

Job description:
You will join Software Department of Celestica Global Design Service as a senior BMC firmware engineer. In this position, you will be responsible to develop and/or customize BMC firmware platforms for various storage products (RAID controllers, disk array enclosures, network attached storage systems, and storage servers) and server products (Rack mount server, Blade server, converged server) and enterprise network switch product and deliver turn-key solutions for customers. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
1) Design requirements analysis based on inputs from customer or business/marketing groups or system architects.
2) Create firmware architecture design and/or module design specifications and drive detailed design activities including coding, code inspection, unit test, integration test and functional verification.
3) Conduct detailed design efforts. Closely monitor detailed design progress and publish status report timely.
4) Coordinate firmware test/verification and debug, support system integration and validation. Manage issues/defects and drive root cause analysis/bug fix.
5) Work with design PM and quality specialists to make and meet commitments for quality, deliverables, and schedule.
6) Contribute to software development process evolution.
Qualification:
1) Master or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
2) 5+ years of firmware development experience with a minimum of 3 years working on BMC firmware development.

Prior Knowledge
1) Solid C programming skills.
2) Be familiar with one or more of the following embedded OS: Linux, ThreadX.
3) In-depth understanding of Linux kernel, device driver, IPC, U-boot.
4) Knowledge of BMC includes IPMI, SDR, SEL, FRU records, SOL, IPMB, Side-band LAN, KCS and KVM Redfish, etc.
5) Working knowledge of BMC related Hardware such as ARM, BMC chip (Ast2500, Pilot 4 etc.), HW-monitor, and Super-IO, NC-SI NIC, phy.
6) Working knowledge of common bus such as I2C, IPMB, PMBUS, SPI, LPC, UART, JTAG.
7) 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.
8) Experience with PSoC or MCU firmware development is a plus.
9) Experience with OpenBMC 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

• 5 to 8 years

Typical Education

• Bachelor's Degree

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.