Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 184,000-356,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

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Details

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer to join its Memory Subsystem Team. The team develops products in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, visualization, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

Develop bare-metal firmware for NVLINK-C2C, including firmware validation and silicon bring-up for NVIDIA products.
Collaborate on pre-silicon firmware development and testing to validate features.
Drive silicon bring-up, feature enablement, and silicon debugging.
Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during bring-up.
Debug hardware and firmware interaction issues, boot failures, training failures, and silicon issues; isolate root causes and drive fixes.
Develop and maintain automation and AI-assisted flows to improve firmware development and verification.
Work closely with system software, RTL design, design verification, emulation, and post-silicon teams.
Refine interface bring-up and validation strategies.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on embedded systems, or equivalent experience.
At least 6 years of experience in low-level firmware design and verification in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
Hands-on experience debugging bare-metal firmware in RTL, SystemVerilog, and UVM testbenches using Verdi or similar debugging tools, and correlating firmware execution with RTL behavior.
Excellent RTL and digital debugging skills, with coding experience in C, C++, and Python.
Experience with high-speed I/O interfaces and understanding of data structures.
Experience developing firmware with AI agents is beneficial.
Understanding of PC systems, Windows, and Linux.
Strong hands-on debugging skills and the ability to break problems down using first principles.
Ability to assume different responsibilities throughout the product lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated success guiding and influencing others in a complex environment.
Proven track record of leading chip bring-up activities.

Benefits

The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package. NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment.

The base salary range is USD 184,000–287,500 for Level 4 and USD 224,000–356,500 for Level 5. Applications will be accepted at least until September 12, 2026.