Director, Tegra Firmware & SoC Platform Leadership

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a seasoned firmware leader to guide foundational Tegra CPU and SoC firmware across distributed teams. You will own architecture-to-bring-up, production, and long-term support, coordinating with CPU, SoC, hardware, and software groups on an integrated platform.

The role emphasizes pre-silicon readiness, security, and safety compliance for automotive and industrial programs, with opportunities for impact across NVIDIA’s Tegra platforms.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in embedded firmware, system software, or low-level platform software.
• 7+ years of engineering leadership, including leading managers or distributed teams.
• Proven success delivering complex CPU or SoC firmware from architecture to production.
• Deep understanding of CPUs, multicore systems, caches, memory, interrupts, and hardware-software interfaces.
• Strong knowledge of bare-metal or real-time firmware, bootloaders, embedded OS, Linux internals, and hardware bring-up.
• Experience with heterogeneous SoCs containing CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, or security processors.
• 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.

Skills

Embedded firmware

Leadership

CPU firmware

Linux internals

Hardware bring-up

System software

Security

Cross-functional leadership

Pre-silicon development

Education

Advanced degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

UEFI

ARM Trusted Firmware

RTOS

Linux kernel

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a seasoned firmware leader to guide foundational Tegra CPU and SoC firmware across distributed teams. You will own architecture-to-bring-up, production, and long-term support, coordinating with CPU, SoC, hardware, and software groups on an integrated platform.

The role emphasizes pre-silicon readiness, security, and safety compliance for automotive and industrial programs, with opportunities for impact across NVIDIA’s Tegra platforms.