Senior Software Engineer - GPU and SOC

NVIDIA•Us, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is searching for highly motivated, creative engineers to join the Platform Software team. You will work with a team of hardworking software engineers working on all aspects of SOC and system, and technology verticals. As someone who is hardworking and passionate about their craft, you will design key aspects of our SOC drivers, Firmware, BIOS, BSP, sophisticated CI/CD system, as well as collaborating with key partners and OEM customers. You should demonstrate the ability to excel in an environment with fast pace and agility.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with 5+ years of meaningful software development experience
Strong understanding on ARM microarchitecture as well as understanding of ARM exception levels
Strong understanding of Pre-OS Firmware, uP / subsystems Firmware and Software, peripherals
Background in solving problems that apply to large complex systems deployed at scale.
Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills as well as having shown initiative in pursuing independent coding projects
Good understanding of ACPI as Device tree concepts
Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.)
Strong Operating systems fundamentals with Kernel , Hypervisor experience on Windows systems as well as Linux systems
Hands on experience on debuggers like GDB, WinDBG as well compilers like GCC, MSVC, LLVM etc
Good understanding of SOC architecture spanning across Boot, Security and OS

Nice To Haves

Background and strength with sophisticated system-level debugging is invaluable
Experience working on system level reliability and resiliency features.
Familiarity with system level security concepts
Experience with embedded system SW concepts.

Responsibilities

Developing, triaging and debugging Pre-OS Firmware, BIOS, SoC & Platform drivers
Building sophisticated automation triage tools and, FW and OS-drivers issue packetizations
Supporting OS driver development, bring up and triaging of Platform and Multimedia drivers
Supporting the OEM ecosystem and providing innovative solutions
Drive Startup and Shutdown Time KPIs goal & optimizations
Assist Security and OS drivers
Supporting various ecosystems related verticals
Responsible for full product lifecycle from pre-silicon to bringup to production, in products across different business verticals: FW and OS-driver verification on Pre-Silicon (emulation, simulation) platforms, Bring-up of FW & OS-drivers on silicon, Post-Silicon SW milestones execution and launching SW product.
Be heavily involved in architecture definition and early modeling, simulation required to create our groundbreaking products
Multiple opportunities to collaborate and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams from all around the globe