Senior Firmware Engineer - Development, Verification And Infrastructure

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 184,000-356,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

Tech Stack
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Details

As a member of our NVLink Firmware Development and Verification team, you will be responsible for performing unit and integration-level firmware verification across both pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms. You will also help enable the firmware and verification infrastructure for our next-generation GPUs, which power high-performance interconnects in multi-GPU systems. Experience or familiarity with high-performance computing systems, interconnects, or networking protocols and architectures is a plus.

What you'll be doing

Collaborate within a combined design and verification team to validate firmware features and functionality.
Develop verification plans, test cases, and correctness models (primarily in Python) to verify firmware functionality.
Drive silicon bring-up, feature enablement, and debug activities on GPU systems.
Work closely with architecture, hardware, and firmware teams on firmware enablement, design-for-debug, and validation strategies.
Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during customer qualification or in-field testing.
Log and track bugs, maintain coverage metrics, and perform gap analysis.
Develop and maintain automation tools and infrastructure to improve firmware development, regression, and verification workflows.

What we need to see

BS or MS degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Minimum 6+ years of experience in firmware or software verification.
Strong debugging and analytical skills.
Proficiency in Python, C, C++ and understanding of object-oriented programming.
Solid understanding of computer architecture, microprocessors, and microcontroller fundamentals.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across on-site and remote teams.
Positive attitude and strong team player; able to work effectively under tight schedules.
Software development or verification experience is a plus.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

Passion for low-level software, firmware development, and debugging.
Hands-on experience with hardware/software interaction and embedded environments.
Familiarity with RTOS or RISC-V programming and debugging.
Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Strong execution discipline and ability to meet schedule commitments.