Director of Tegra Firmware & Platform Excellence

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a skilled firmware leadership professional to guide globally distributed teams responsible for Tegra CPU/SoC firmware development. You will own architecture through production, focusing on boot, memory initialization, multicore startup, and secure features, aligning with safety and security requirements.

The role requires deep embedded firmware expertise, strong architectural judgment, and a track record of delivering production firmware across silicon generations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in embedded firmware, system software, or low-level platform software.
• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers or distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of CPUs, multicore systems, memory, and hardware interfaces.
• Experience with pre-silicon development, post-silicon debugging, and fault analysis.

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 initialization, multicore startup, power-state transitions, and OS handoff.
• Partner with CPU, SoC, hardware, verification, OS, safety, and product teams on platform delivery.
• Drive pre-silicon readiness, silicon bring-up, fault injection, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Skills

Embedded firmware

Leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Architectural judgment

Linux internals

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE/EE

Tools

ARM Trusted Firmware

UEFI

Bootloaders

RTOS platforms

System-control processors

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a skilled firmware leadership professional to guide globally distributed teams responsible for Tegra CPU/SoC firmware development. You will own architecture through production, focusing on boot, memory initialization, multicore startup, and secure features, aligning with safety and security requirements.

The role requires deep embedded firmware expertise, strong architectural judgment, and a track record of delivering production firmware across silicon generations.