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Senior Software Development Tech Lead – NVLink FW and NVOS

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$224k - $431.3kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior IC/tech lead role in NVIDIA's NVLink team, focusing on firmware and NVOS development for NVLink networking fabric in datacenter infrastructure, Santa Clara.

Responsibilities

  • Spearhead the end-to-end development and implementation of features that ensure customers can configure, install, and solve issues with NVLink, powering NVIDIA’s datacenter fabric.
  • Be the Point of Contact and own the SDLC for the programs, ensuring the highest quality of software deliveries.
  • Define technical direction, breakdown, and be the quality bar for NVLink features, driving them from idea to production as a hands-on IC.
  • Collaborate with product, test, applications engineering, production/manufacturing, and partner engineering teams to translate customer issues into concrete product solutions.
  • Implement application flows that build on our networking fabric, helping the team to support our core CSP customer base.
  • Establish guidelines for evaluation, observability, and continuous improvement of our networking infrastructure from manufacturing to production networks.
  • Be an evangelist for AI adoption in software development, test and across the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, EE, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Over 12+ years of direct software development experience, including substantial responsibility for complex, customer-facing systems or platforms.
  • Proven track record as a technical lead, engineering manager or architect for significant features or products across networking and datacenter infra with clear ownership for both creating and execution of goals.
  • Strong networking acumen, developing or leading the firmware and/or OS development of network infra.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical direction across teams while remaining as an individual contributor.
  • Strong hands-on development experience in embedded C/C++ and Python.

Skills

Required:Embedded C/C++PythonNetworking and firmware/OS development

Benefits

  • Equity and benefits (as part of compensation package)
  • Competitive salaries
  • Generous benefits package
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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