Principal Firmware Engineer - Data Center Server Management

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 472,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering technology firm at the forefront of AI computing, where you'll be instrumental in designing next-generation AI supercomputing platforms. As a technical architect, you'll own the manageability architecture for innovative products in data centers, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. Collaborating with diverse teams, you'll translate customer requirements into cutting-edge solutions while driving firmware quality and telemetry performance. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry, fostering a culture of creativity and excellence. If you're ready to tackle complex challenges and make a significant impact, this is the place for you.

Benefits

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in server firmware and platform software development.
• Strong skills in C/C++ and Python with data center management experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive server management for large clusters deploying GPUs and Grace solutions.
• Collaborate to design data center health management workflows.

Skills

C/C++ Programming

Python

Server Firmware Development

Data Center Management

Project Management

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Git

Perforce

Jira

Job description

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked 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. NVIDIA GH200 superchip provides performance and productivity required for strong scaling for HPC and generative AI workload. Scale out is inherent to design of this massive superchip. We are looking for expert engineers to come and help design rack level solutions for next generation scaling AI supercomputing platforms.

We are looking for a strong technical architect to own end to end manageability architecture for these products in data centers. You will work with various component leads internally and externally, drive customer use cases, align architecture with customer requirements and release best products to market.

Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive server management for large clusters and data centers deploying GPUs and Grace solution from Nvidia.
• Work with data center architects and cloud customers to narrow down on requirements for implementation to ensure speed of light product development.
• Work with internal teams to make sure requirements are designed and implemented in right way with each firmware and software module.
• Collaborate with other leads to design & build data center health management workflow.
• Drive reliability and optimization in firmware architecture from a data center view point.
• Work closely with cluster bring up team and resolve issues at Speed of Light.
• Own firmware delivered to data centers in terms of quality, reliability and telemetry performance.

What we need to see:

• 15+ years of relevant experience working on server firmware (BMC) and platform software development.
• BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education or equivalent experience.
• Hands on experience with data center health management workflow. Proven record of delivering server firmware for large data centers.
• Strong knowledge of data center management, server architecture and server manageability in data centers and strong and demonstrable skill in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience programming and debugging skills for server platforms.
• Experience in SCM (e.g. Git, Perforce) and project management tools like Jira.
• You should possess excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of team-work, love to produce quality work and commitment to finish your tasks every single day.
• You are a self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to complicated problems and hands on with coding.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Hands on experience with data center health management.
• Hands on with x86 or ARM system architecture.
• Proven technical leaders to drive large complex problem with 50+ engineers working.

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 on the planet working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 471,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.