Senior Firmware Engineer

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

7d•$184,000 - $356,500•Onsite

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding Senior Firmware Engineer to join the System Control Firmware team. This role is at the core of NVIDIA’s Tegra SoC architecture, where you will develop, implement, and secure essential software that regulates everything from boot sequencing to dynamic power, clock, and thermal management for top-tier autonomous vehicles, AI edge devices, next-generation data centers, and advanced robotics. This position offers the opportunity to influence the industry directly while working with a diverse set of minds in the field.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of professional experience in embedded firmware development, low-level C programming, and memory-mapped register access.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical problem-solving efforts in complex projects, with a proven track record of influencing cross-functional teams and driving technical alignment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly across a distributed, multi-site team.
Practical experience or familiarity with contemporary software development involving AI agents or LLM-assisted workflows to improve code generation, testing, or engineering efficiency.
Solid grasp of SoC boot flows, interrupts, linker/build systems, and device tree-based configurations.
Direct experience managing low-level SoC infrastructure like clocks, resets, voltage rails, and power-gating behaviors.
Outstanding debugging skills, a self-starter attitude, a high sense of teamwork, and a meticulous approach to avoiding regressions in sensitive system behaviors.

Nice To Haves

Experience or strong professional interest in applying the Rust language for systems programming, safe firmware architectures, or tooling.
Proven background working under ISO 26262 functional safety standards and accomplishing FMEA.
Knowledge of secure boot principles and hardware/software boundary protection.
A passion for collaborating closely with hardware engineers to influence next-generation silicon development across automotive, robotic, and data center platforms.

Responsibilities

Build, implement, and optimize low-level C firmware for the Boot and Power Management Processor (BPMP) across the entire Tegra SoC lifecycle.
Provide hands-on technical support to active product programs by diagnosing and debugging complex, high-priority issues, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive rapid resolutions.
Lead system control firmware from inception through bring-up and productization, owning integration, release readiness, issue resolution, and customer/factory deliverables.
Lead and promote the ongoing refinement of software engineering processes, development methodologies, and team workflows to improve efficiency, code quality, and release reliability.
Work closely with hardware, software, and safety architecture groups across our worldwide engineering locations to coordinate requirements and system-level interfaces.
Identify complex hardware/software boundary failures by analyzing boot logs and hardware traces.
Develop thorough unit/integration tests and conduct error injection on emulation platforms and physical boards.