Senior Firmware Verification & Bringup Engineer

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer to join the Memory Subsystem Team. You will lead bare-metal firmware bring-up, validate features pre- and post-silicon, and work with RTL, DV, emulation, and software teams to unblock progress.

Applicants should have 6+ years in low-level firmware, strong RTL debugging, and proficiency in C/C++/Python, with a focus on high-speed IO interfaces and PC/Linux environments. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• BS or MS EE degree with focus in embedded systems (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of proven experience in low-level firmware design and verification in pre and post silicon.
• Hands-on experience debugging bare-metal firmware in RTL / SystemVerilog / UVM testbenches using Verdi or similar debug tools and correlating firmware execution with RTL behavior.
• Excellent RTL, digital debug skills, and understanding and coding skills in C/C++/Python
• Experience with high-speed IO interfaces understanding of data structures.
• Experience in developing firmware with AI agents would be beneficial.
• Proven understanding of PC systems, Windows OS, and Linux.
• Hands on debugging skills. Able to break problems down based on first principles.
• Comfortable assuming different responsibilities over the life of a product.

Responsibilities

• Bare-metal Firmware development for NVLINK-C2C, validation and debug of firmware and silicon bring-up for NVIDIA products.
• Collaborate in pre-silicon firmware development and testing to validate features.
• Drive silicon-bringup, feature enablement, and debug on silicon.
• Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during bringup.
• Debug hardware / firmware interaction issues, boot failures, training failures, and silicon issues; isolate root cause and drive fixes.
• Develop and maintain automation and AI-assisted flows to improve firmware development and verification.
• Work closely with system Software, RTL Design, DV, emulation, and post-silicon teams to unblock progress.
• Refine our Interface bring up and validation strategy.

Skills

Firmware debugging

RTL debugging

C/C++/Python

Pre/post-silicon firmware

Education

BS or MS EE

Tools

Verdi

SystemVerilog

UVM

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer to join the Memory Subsystem Team. You will lead bare-metal firmware bring-up, validate features pre- and post-silicon, and work with RTL, DV, emulation, and software teams to unblock progress.

Applicants should have 6+ years in low-level firmware, strong RTL debugging, and proficiency in C/C++/Python, with a focus on high-speed IO interfaces and PC/Linux environments. Hybrid work model offered.