Senior Embedded Systems Engineer: Firmware & RTOS

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior engineer to enhance GPU system software, firmware, and RTOS-related components. You will design, implement, bring up, and support firmware, a real-time OS, and the related driver interfaces, collaborating with hardware and software partners globally.

The role emphasizes building robust software, modern tooling, and ownership from design through release, with a focus on low-level interfaces such as interrupts, GPIO, DMA, PCIe, and I2C.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in system software, embedded software, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of meaningful experience.
• Experience writing software in C, and scripting to build, test, or run that software.
• Background with embedded software, a real-time operating system, and device drivers, and with low-level interfaces such as interrupts, GPIO, DMA, PCIe, or I2C.
• Experience delivering software you were accountable for, from design through release and support.
• Experience using AI development tools to write, review, and test software more efficiently
• Background with embedded software for power, thermal, or performance and experience designing real-time control software
• Experience with operating system internals, kernel modules, or computer architecture
• Experience with firmware security or safety
• Background with Rust

Responsibilities

• Improve the product and the process used to build, test, and run it.
• Design and implement firmware and real-time operating system changes, and the driver interface that connects them with the rest of the system.
• Use current development tools, including tools that generate and check code, and make those tools part of how the team develops and validates software.
• Work with hardware and software partners in other locations to resolve issues and deliver the result.

Skills

C programming

Embedded software

RTOS experience

Device drivers

PCIe interface

I2C interface

GPIO interface

Software design

Scripting for build/test

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior engineer to enhance GPU system software, firmware, and RTOS-related components. You will design, implement, bring up, and support firmware, a real-time OS, and the related driver interfaces, collaborating with hardware and software partners globally.

The role emphasizes building robust software, modern tooling, and ownership from design through release, with a focus on low-level interfaces such as interrupts, GPIO, DMA, PCIe, and I2C.