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Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5knot specifiedPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer in NVIDIA’s Memory Subsystem Team focusing on bare-metal firmware development, pre- and post-silicon bring-up, debugging, and verification with automation and AI-assisted flows.

Responsibilities

  • Bare-metal Firmware development for NVLINK-C2C, validation and debug of firmware and silicon bring-up for NVIDIA products.
  • Collaborate in pre-silicon firmware development and testing to validate features.
  • Drive silicon-bringup, feature enablement, and debug on silicon.
  • Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during bringup.
  • Debug hardware / firmware interaction issues, boot failures, training failures, and silicon issues; isolate root cause and drive fixes.
  • Develop and maintain automation and AI-assisted flows to improve firmware development and verification.
  • Work closely with system Software, RTL Design, DV, emulation, and post-silicon teams to unblock progress.
  • Refine our Interface bring up and validation strategy.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS EE degree with focus in embedded systems (or equivalent experience).
  • 6+ years of proven experience in low-level firmware design and verification in pre and post silicon.
  • Hands-on experience debugging bare-metal firmware in RTL / SystemVerilog / UVM testbenches using Verdi or similar debug tools and correlating firmware execution with RTL behavior.
  • Excellent RTL, digital debug skills, and understanding and coding skills in C/C++/Python.
  • Experience with high-speed IO interfaces understanding of data structures.
  • Experience in developing firmware with AI agents would be beneficial.
  • Proven understanding of PC systems, Windows OS, and Linux.
  • Hands on debugging skills. Able to break problems down based on first principles.
  • Comfortable assuming different responsibilities over the life of a product.

Skills

Required:Bare-metal firmware developmentFirmware debuggingRTL/SystemVerilog/UVMC/C++/PythonHigh-speed IO interfaces
Nice to have:AI-enabled automation

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as listed in NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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