Director, Tegra Firmware — Global Embedded Systems Leader

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 320,000 - 489,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA seeks a seasoned firmware leader to guide Tegra CPU/SoC firmware development from architecture through production. You will manage globally distributed teams, set strategy, and ensure robust boot, memory initialization, and security features.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated platform solutions for automotive, robotics, and edge compute, while meeting safety and reliability requirements across multiple silicon generations.

Qualifications

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.

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.