Senior Memory Subsystem Firmware Engineer

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$184,000 - $356,500•Hybrid

About The Position

NVIDIA's SoC Memory Subsystem team is looking for a strong, senior DRAM firmware engineer to own memory firmware from architecture through production silicon. You'll lead in areas of DRAM initialization and training across DDR/LPDDR, drive interface tuning across process, voltage, and temperature corners, and set the direction for how we take new memory interfaces from pre-silicon to production.

Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
6+ years of relevant DRAM / memory firmware development for high speed LPDDR or system DDR memories.
Strong command of DRAM initialization and training — protocols, calibration algorithms, and their implementation in firmware.
Deep understanding of DRAM interfaces and how PVT (process / voltage / temperature) variation affects timing, training, and margining.
Proficiency in C/C++, with a solid grasp of data structures, compilers, and build and version-control tooling.
Excellent debugging skills; able to decompose hard, ambiguous failures from first principles.

Nice To Haves

Breadth across DDR / LPDDR / HBM and multiple DRAM vendors.
Signal-integrity intuition and comfort working with analog/mixed-signal behavior.
Understanding of ASIC boot architecture.

Responsibilities

Own DRAM firmware across its lifecycle — architecture, implementation, silicon bring-up, and production tuning.
Design and implement DRAM initialization and training sequences: training protocols, calibration algorithms, and their firmware implementation.
Characterize and tune the DRAM interface across PVT (process / voltage / temperature) variation to hold margins across corners.
Drive the memory bring-up and validation strategy; root-cause complex hardware/software interactions in the lab and in pre-silicon.
Set firmware quality bar — code review, profiling, and coverage — and mentor early-career engineers on the team.
Refining our Interface bring up and validation strategy.