Senior Firmware Bringup & Verification Engineer – Hybrid

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA invites a Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer to join their Memory Subsystem Team in Santa Clara. You will lead bare-metal firmware development for NVLINK-C2C, validate firmware and silicon bring-up, and collaborate across pre-silicon and post-silicon stages.

The role requires 6+ years in low-level firmware design/verification, proficiency with RTL/SystemVerilog/UVM and C/C++/Python, and experience with high-speed IO. NVIDIA offers rich benefits and an inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• BS or MS EE with focus in embedded systems
• 6+ years of low-level firmware design and verification in pre/post-silicon
• Hands-on debugging bare-metal firmware in RTL/SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches
• Proficient in RTL, digital debugging, and C/C++/Python
• Experience with high-speed IO interfaces and data structures
• Experience developing firmware with AI agents is a plus
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux operating systems
• Ability to break problems down from first principles and adapt to evolving roles

Responsibilities

• Bare-metal firmware development for NVLINK-C2C and silicon bring-up validation
• Collaborate in pre-silicon firmware development and testing
• Drive silicon bring-up, feature enablement, and debug on silicon
• Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during bring-up
• Debug hardware/firmware interactions, boot/training/silicon issues; isolate root cause
• Develop and maintain automation and AI-assisted verification flows
• Coordinate with system Software, RTL Design, DV, emulation and post-silicon teams
• Refine Interface bring up and validation strategy

Skills

Bare-metal debugging

C/C++/Python

RTL/SystemVerilog/UVM

Embedded systems

Pre/post-silicon bring-up

Education

BS or MS EE with embedded focus

Tools

Verdi

UVM

Windows OS

Linux

Job description

NVIDIA invites a Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer to join their Memory Subsystem Team in Santa Clara. You will lead bare-metal firmware development for NVLINK-C2C, validate firmware and silicon bring-up, and collaborate across pre-silicon and post-silicon stages.

The role requires 6+ years in low-level firmware design/verification, proficiency with RTL/SystemVerilog/UVM and C/C++/Python, and experience with high-speed IO. NVIDIA offers rich benefits and an inclusive environment.