Firmware Engineer

NVIDIA Gruppe; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA in Helsinki is seeking a Firmware Engineer to join the System Control Firmware team. You will design, implement, and secure low-level C firmware for the BPMP across the Tegra SoC lifecycle, enabling boot, power, and thermal management for autonomous vehicles, AI edge devices, data centers, and robotics.

You will work with hardware, software, and safety architecture teams across global sites, perform debug and test automation, and provide hands-on program support.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
• Strong problem-solving and technical leadership abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for cross-site collaboration.
• Hands-on experience or familiarity with AI-assisted workflows to improve code/testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize low-level C firmware for the BPMP across the Tegra SoC lifecycle.
• Provide hands-on technical support to active product programs and troubleshoot high-priority issues.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and safety architecture teams across global sites.
• Write unit/integration tests and perform error injection on emulation platforms and boards.

Skills

Embedded firmware development

Low-level C programming

Memory-mapped registers

Technical leadership

Communication skills

AI skills

SoC boot flows

Hardware interface

Debugging

Education

BS or MS in EE/CS/CE

Job description

NVIDIA's invention of the GPU in 1999 fueled the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning - 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, we are increasingly known as "the AI computing company." We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. Are you ready to change the next generation of computing? Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

Do you enjoy hacking and tinkering at the lowest levels of software? Are you passionate about squeezing every drop of efficiency out of complex hardware while ensuring total system stability? If so, we are searching for an outstanding Firmware Engineer to join the NVIDIA System Control Firmware team. As part of the System Control Firmware team, you will be at the very heart of NVIDIA's Tegra SoC architecture. You will design, implement, and secure the foundational software that controls everything from basic boot sequencing to dynamic power, clock, and thermal management for world-class autonomous vehicles, AI edge devices, next-generation data centers, and advanced robotics. This is your chance to create waves in the industry while directly working alongside some of the most top-valued, diverse minds in the business.

What you'll be doing:

• Core Firmware Development: Design, implement, and optimize low-level C firmware for the Boot and Power Management Processor (BPMP) across the entire Tegra SoC lifecycle.
• Active Program Support: Provide hands-on technical support to active product programs by diagnosing and debugging complex, high-priority issues, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive rapid resolutions.
• Global Collaboration: Partner closely with hardware, software, and safety architecture teams across our globally distributed engineering sites to align on requirements and system-level interfaces.
• Debug & Test Automation: Diagnose complex hardware/software boundary failures using boot logs and hardware traces. Write comprehensive unit/integration tests and perform error injection on emulation platforms and physical boards.

What we need to see:

• Education: BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 2+ years of professional experience in embedded firmware development, low-level C programming, and memory-mapped register access.
• Technical Leadership & Influence: Demonstrated ability to do technical problem-solving efforts in complex projects.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly across a distributed, multi-site team.
• AI Skills: Hands-on experience or familiarity with modern software development using AI agents or LLM-assisted workflows to enhance code generation, testing, or engineering efficiency.
• Deep Systems Knowledge: Good grasp of SoC boot flows, interrupts, linker/build systems, and device tree-based configurations.
• Hardware Interface Expertise: Knowledge of low-level SoC infrastructure like clocks, resets, voltage rails, and power-gating behaviors.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Debugging skills, a self-starter mindset, a high sense of teamwork, and a meticulous approach to avoiding regressions in sensitive system behaviors.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience or strong professional interest in utilizing the Rust language for systems programming, safe firmware architectures, or tooling.
• Proven background working under ISO 26262 functional safety standards and executing FMEA.
• Familiarity with secure boot concepts and hardware/software boundary security.
• A passion for working closely with hardware designers to influence next-generation silicon design across automotive, robotic, and data center platforms.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, 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 and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.