Student Intern, Software & Hardware Engineer

Location: Austin, TX, US

Req ID: 140556 Region: Americas Country: USA State/Province: Texas City:  Austin

3 Month Internship

As a global technology leader, Celestica designs, engineers, and manufactures industry-leading products and services that drive customer success and market advancement. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we bring together over 33,000 employees across more than 45 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, aerospace and defense, healthtech, and capital equipment.

Working at Celestica is more than a job. It’s about being part of something bigger and shaping the future with your work. You’ll take on exciting and challenging projects, get hands-on experience, collaborate with a global team, and learn from some of the greatest minds in the industry. And just as we aspire to imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers, we’re just as committed to delivering the best employee experience.

Benefits for Students Include

Experience working for one of the largest Canadian global technology companies

Possibility of a student casual contract position after completion of internship

Possibility of a full-time position after completion of degree

Access to Celestica’s development programs and projects

Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program – two paid days off to volunteer per year

Fun intern activities including celebration events and networking

Internal recognition programs and rewards for stellar performance

What’s in it for you?

Opportunity: Job experience at a large Canadian-based global company

Innovation: We look to our employees to implement new ideas and improve the way we do things

Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology

Sustainability: We uphold strong ethics, reduce our impact on the environment and empower employees to give back to the community with two paid days off per year to volunteer

Development opportunities: including soft skills courses, innovation projects and mentorship

Networking: Strategically build your professional network to advance your career and deepen relationships across your peers and colleagues.

Fun: Our interns have the opportunity to participate in fun activities including intern social events, Celestica’s charitable initiatives and our Spirit Week activities

About this opportunity

Celestica is looking for talented and passionate Lead Embedded Software Engineers for the Hardware Platform Services team. This team is responsible for designing and developing Cloud Hardware infrastructure that includes Compute, Storage, AI servers and Networking Switches.

Celestica is leading the charge in the AI-driven era by developing ultra-dense, power-efficient, and high-speed infrastructure solutions. Our approach is grounded in extensive engineering expertise, a proven track record of technology experience, a resilient supply chain and strong global partnerships. We collaborate with customers to design purpose-built solutions that guarantee optimized performance, engineered reliability, and a truly agile, future-ready foundation for tomorrow’s AI infrastructure demands.

Preferred Skills

Experience in C / C++ and other low-level programming languages and embedded systems

Experience in Hardware bring-up, validation of all low-level interactions, troubleshooting and resolution of  hardware / software interfaces in areas such as High‑speed interface bring‑up, Bootloader bring‑up and High‑speed interface bring‑up (PCIe, USB, DDR, MIPI, Ethernet)

Experience in Board bring-up of new embedded hardware with low-level driver development to verify functionality including Linux kernel bring-up, kernel enablement and upstreaming

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Experience in Device Drivers such as PCIE, I2C, etc.

Knowledge of BIOS, BMC, Secure Boot, Linux Kernel, etc.

Experience in Real Time OS / Linux kernel memory management, interrupts, IOMMU

Familiarity with main elements of CPU, DPU, memory, NICs

Experience in designing and developing low level software to enable Data Center hardware

Prior experience GPU libraries like CUDA and ROCm is a plus

Activities

Gather Requirements and provide technical solutions that span across the system

Design and implement drivers, application software that drive next generation CPU and GPU systems for Data Centers

Develop, augment and maintain software libraries to support computing on CPU / GPUs

Mentor and coach team members on the technical skills and approaches to solve problems.

Review and maintain the quality of code going into production.

Physical Demands, duties of this position are varied and will include:

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.

Additional Information

Area: Engineering

Start Date: June 2027

Location: Austin, Texas

Vacancies: 3

Experience: No Formal Experience Required.

Education: Currently pursuing or approaching completion of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related.

To apply, please visit www.celestica.com. Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application. Please include your student email address in your application.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer.