Director, Tegra Firmware & SoC Platforms

NVIDIA Gruppe

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 320,000 - 489,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a skilled technical and organizational leader to guide foundational firmware development for Tegra CPU and SoC platforms. You will lead globally distributed teams responsible for CPU boot, initialization, and production diagnostics, delivering secure and reliable firmware across multiple silicon generations.

The role requires deep embedded systems expertise, strong architectural judgment, and 12+ years in firmware or system software, plus 7+ years in

Qualifications

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE/EE or equivalent.
12+ years in embedded firmware, system software, or low-level platform software.
7+ years in engineering leadership including leading managers or distributed teams.
Proven success delivering complex CPU/SoC firmware from architecture through production.
Deep understanding of CPUs, multicore systems, caches, coherency, memory, interrupts, power management.
Strong knowledge of bare-metal or real-time firmware, bootloaders, embedded OS, Linux internals.

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.