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Director, Tegra Firmware

NVIDIA· Mgmt, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$320k - $488.8kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Technical and organizational leadership role to guide foundational firmware development for Tegra CPU and SoC platforms, overseeing globally distributed teams from architecture and pre-silicon development through bring-up, production, and long-term support, with focus on secure boot, system control, safety services, confidential computing, and production diagnostics for Tegra silicon generations.

Responsibilities

  • - Lead and grow globally distributed firmware teams and engineering managers.
  • - Own delivery from architecture and pre-silicon development through bring-up, production, and long-term support.
  • - Direct development of CPU boot, memory and coherency initialization, multicore startup, power-state transitions, confidential compute, and OS handoff.
  • - Partner with CPU, SoC, hardware, verification, OS, DRIVE OS, safety, security, and product teams on integrated platform delivery.
  • - Drive pre-silicon readiness, silicon bring-up, fault injection, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and development automation.
  • - Lead firmware execution for automotive and industrial programs aligned with ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO/SAE 21434, and applicable certification requirements.
  • - Oversee safety and security activities such as requirements traceability, FMEA, FTA, threat analysis, secure design reviews, verification evidence, and assessor engagement.
  • - Work with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, industrial customers, and ecosystem partners to resolve technical and delivery challenges.

Qualifications

  • - BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
  • - 12+ overall years of experience in embedded firmware, system software, or low-level platform software.
  • - 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers or distributed teams.
  • - Proven success delivering complex CPU or SoC firmware from architecture through production.
  • - Deep understanding of CPUs, multicore systems, caches, coherency, memory, interrupts, power management, and hardware-software interfaces.
  • - Strong knowledge of bare-metal or real-time firmware, bootloaders, embedded operating systems, Linux internals, and hardware bring-up.
  • - Experience with heterogeneous SoCs containing CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, security processors, or system-control microcontrollers.
  • - Experience with pre-silicon development, post-silicon debugging, failure analysis, and in-field diagnostic processes.
  • - Strong understanding of firmware quality, reliability, secure development, and product lifecycle management.
  • - Excellent technical judgment, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Skills

Required:Firmware leadershipCPU/SoC firmware

Benefits

  • - See company benefits page for details.
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