Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware

Details

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering end-to-end manageability firmware for next-generation Data Center Compute Systems. The role owns the HGX product line, OpenBMC-based management firmware, and MCU firmware components across data center platforms, including architecture, execution, quality, reliability, telemetry, and customer readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering OpenBMC-based firmware and MCU firmware for next-generation Data Center Compute Systems.
• Own the HGX platform as the lead for firmware and system software readiness across the organization.
• Define and drive the long-term firmware roadmap while balancing architectural innovation with product execution and delivery milestones.
• Drive architecture strategy across BMC, MCU, platform software, manageability, health management, and data center firmware interfaces.
• Lead execution across multiple programs, coordinating priorities, hiring, cross-component dependencies, and delivery commitments across a large engineering team.
• Collaborate with data center architects, cloud customers, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope implementation, and deliver products.
• Partner with hardware, systems, security, validation, manufacturing, field, and customer engineering teams to ensure scalable manageability architecture across data center products.
• Manage customer and executive escalations involving complex firmware, platform, and deployment issues.
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization with strong technical leadership, execution discipline, and a quality-focused culture.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in server firmware, BMC/OpenBMC, MCU firmware, platform software, or data center systems.
• 6+ years of experience managing software or firmware engineering teams.
• Strong technical leadership in data center system architecture, server manageability, telemetry, health management, and reliability at scale.
• Proven record of delivering production firmware for large data centers with strong quality, debugging, and operational discipline.
• Experience leading architecture and execution across multiple programs, cross-functional teams, and customer-facing deliverables.
• Strong understanding of the firmware development lifecycle, validation, release management, issue triage, and production support.
• Excellent communication skills, strong work ethic, sound judgment, and the ability to align teams through complex technical and business tradeoffs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations, including multi-team execution and senior technical leaders.
• High ownership and experience delivering products across a matrixed organization.
• Hands-on experience with BMC firmware and software stacks, MCU firmware, C/C++, Python, and server platform debugging.
• Expertise with out-of-band management DMTF protocols and standards, including MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, and Redfish.
• Experience with Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, Yocto/BitBake, Git, Perforce, Jira, and modern firmware CI/CD practices.
• Proven ability to drive complex architecture, quality, reliability, and customer escalation work across 25+ engineers or similarly large engineering teams.

Benefits

• Equity eligibility.
• Benefits eligibility.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment.