Senior Firmware Engineer

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Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office
152K-288K Annually
Senior level
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The Role
The Senior Firmware Engineer will perform firmware verification, develop verification plans and automation tools, and collaborate with teams to ensure feature functionality and troubleshoot issues.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a member of our NVLink Firmware Development and Verification team, you will be responsible for performing unit and integration-level firmware verification across both pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms. You will also help enable the firmware and verification infrastructure for our next-generation GPUs, which power high-performance interconnects in multi-GPU systems. Experience or familiarity with high-performance computing systems, interconnects, or networking protocols and architectures is a plus.

What you'll be doing:

  • Collaborate within a combined design and verification team to validate firmware features and functionality.

  • Develop verification plans, test cases, and correctness models (primarily in Python) to verify firmware functionality.

  • Drive silicon bring-up, feature enablement, and debug activities on GPU systems.

  • Work closely with architecture, hardware, and firmware teams on firmware enablement, design-for-debug, and validation strategies.

  • Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during customer qualification or in-field testing.

  • Log and track bugs, maintain coverage metrics, and perform gap analysis.

  • Develop and maintain automation tools and infrastructure to improve firmware development, regression, and verification workflows.

What we need to see:

  • BS or MS degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

  • Minimum 3+ years of experience in firmware or software verification.

  • Strong debugging and analytical skills.

  • Proficiency in Python, C, C++ and understanding of object-oriented programming.

  • Solid understanding of computer architecture, microprocessors, and microcontroller fundamentals.

  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across on-site and remote teams.

  • Positive attitude and strong team player; able to work effectively under tight schedules.

  • Software development or verification experience is a plus.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Passion for low-level software, firmware development, and debugging.

  • Hands-on experience with hardware/software interaction and embedded environments.

  • Familiarity with RTOS or RISC-V programming and debugging.

  • Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

  • Strong execution discipline and ability to meet schedule commitments.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Are you creative and autonomous? Do you love the challenge of crafting the highest performance & lowest power silicon possible? If so, we want to hear from you. Come, join our NVLink design team and help build the real-time, cost-effective computing platform driving our success in this exciting and quickly growing field.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 19, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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