Senior System Firmware Engineer - BIOS UEFI

NVIDIA•Redmond, WA

85d•$184,000 - $356,500

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking exceptional individuals to join their team at the forefront of technological advancement, specifically in AI computing. This role involves designing, implementing, and delivering innovations for GPU-based Client products with a focus on firmware development. The engineer will collaborate with a global team of BIOS (UEFI) developers on NVIDIA client designs, focusing on performance-optimized UEFI/BIOS solutions using industry standards. Responsibilities include instrumenting code for maximum coverage, automating unit tests, maintaining test reports, and providing software quality reports. The role also involves working with the security team to ensure code aligns with product security goals, partnering closely with hardware teams to influence hardware design and review architecture/schematics, and collaborating with QA/Test architects on test tools and automation for the system software and firmware stack.

Requirements

Domain expertise in System BIOS (UEFI) Firmware development on X86 or ARM Platforms.
Strong experience with IBVs or EDK2 Firmware architecture.
Solid experience of end-to-end delivery of client products from definition to customer deployment.
Solid understanding of low-level interfaces between BIOS (UEFI) and OS like I2C/SPI/PCIe/JTAG etc.
PCIe enumeration, IO at platform level for client products.
Experience working closely with HW teams, ODMs and vendors to introduce and support client platforms.
Experience with C/C++ development, bash/python for scripting, and debugging skills in embedded Linux/Windows operating environments.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of team-work, love to produce quality work and commitment to finish your tasks every single day.
Self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to exciting problems.
Bachelor’s Degree or higher; in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience, with demonstrated strong ability as individual contributor.

Nice To Haves

Proven record in delivering BIOS(UEFI) for ARM architecture based client products
Experience working with IBVs or IBV solutions

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and delivering innovations for GPU based Client products with focus on firmware development.
Working with a global team of BIOS(UEFI) developers on NVIDIA client designs.
Designing and developing performance optimized UEFI/BIOS solutions using industry Standards.
Instrumenting code to ensure maximum code coverage, writing and automating unit tests for each implemented module and maintain detailed unit test case reports.
Providing software quality reports based on static analysis, code coverage, CPU load.
Working with security team to ensure developed code is in line with product security goals.
Partner closely with hardware teams to influence hardware design and review HW architecture & schematics.
Working with QA/Test architects to come up with proper test tools and automation for qualifying the whole system software and firmware stack.