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Senior Firmware Engineer – CSP Engagements

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $356.5kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Firmware Engineer focused on system software for Datacenter products, working with CSP engagements to design, develop, debug, and deploy embedded firmware and manageability/observability features for data center servers and GPUs.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop firmware solutions for manageability and observability of data center servers.
  • Actively participate in hardware bring-up activities, OOB firmware development, protocol stacks (Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, NSM) and hardware-software co-design for Cloud Service Provider deployments.
  • Debug and troubleshoot NVIDIA GPU firmware issues, power management, performance, and thermal control problems for data center deployments, providing active support to CSPs.
  • Partner directly with CSPs to deliver technical solutions, co-develop & co-debug features and optimizations, and provide support during new product introductions.
  • Perform advanced system debugging, root cause analysis, and performance optimization for large-scale data center environments.
  • Collaborate with AE, FAE, and Solution Architect teams to deliver integrated customer solutions and technical documentation.

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in data center server architectures, HPC systems, and hardware-software co-design.
  • Deep expertise in embedded firmware, server management controllers, and hardware bring-up with proven track record of shipping production BMC solutions.
  • Strong knowledge of DMTF protocols (Redfish, IPMI, PLDM, MCTP, SPDM), telemetry frameworks, and out-of-band management architectures.
  • Expert-level skills in C/C++ in resource-constrained embedded environments, RTOS, device drivers, and low-level protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, MCTP).
  • Experience with RAS including error handling, error injection, fault isolation, and system health monitoring.
  • BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8-12 years of system software development experience.

Skills

Required:Embedded firmware developmentC/C++RTOSLow-level protocolsDMTF protocolsHardware bring-upDebugging/root cause analysis

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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