Senior Firmware Engineer

We are looking for an excellent Senior Firmware Engineer to join the Firmware team. The NVIDIA Firmware team develops groundbreaking networking features for cloud, HPC and storage. We drive the data growth of the world’s biggest companies. With many hardworking engineers around the globe, the work environment is complex, results-oriented and fast paced.

What you will be doing

• Collaborate across software, hardware and architecture teams to define, plan and deliver on commitments, following all the way through the development process from design, development, chip bringup to productization.
• Multiple opportunities to collaborate and communicate effectively with teams from all around the globe.
• Heavily involved with the early modeling and simulation required to produce our outstanding products.
• Implement new features for NVIDIA NIC, Switch and GPU firmware.
• Work with multiple processors that running the same code.
• Develop verification tests for advanced features in a highly complex and sophisticated Firmware testing environment.
• Gain a deep understanding of system debug, networking technology and stacks, as well as the HW/FW/SW relationship.
• You will learn how a big software project is operated, maintained, qualified and released, and how Hardware and Firmware are developed.

What we need to see

• B.Sc. in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional experience
• Strong C/C++ and OOP capabilities
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms fundamentals
• Scripting abilities (Python, Bash)
• Strong analytical, debugging and problem solving skills
• Motivated and independent with strong social skills
• Prior firmware design and verification experience

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Background in simulation development or real-time programming (RTOS)
• Experience in Firmware boot and security flows
• Experience in x86 assembly and knowledge of the PC architecture
• Knowledge of peripheral, network, and storage protocols
• Experience with Agile methods

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU fuelled the PC gaming market. The company’s groundbreaking work in accelerated computing—a supercharged form of computing at the intersection of computer graphics, high performance computing and AI—is reshaping trillion-dollar industries, such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing, and fueling the growth of many others. In 2020, NVIDIA acquired Mellanox, a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!