Tegra System Firmware Engineer (Trusted Firmware)

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Tegra System Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA to design and build system software for ARM Trusted Firmware, and to craft AI-assisted workflows connecting engineering tasks with approved contexts and systems. You will collaborate across firmware and system software interfaces, including early boot, power management, and CPU architecture exploration.

Required 5+ years in system software, strong C/C++ skills, firmware experience, and knowledge of safety standards.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of proven experience in system software development.
• Strong software engineering experience in C or C++ and the ability to debug low-level software.
• Experience developing or integrating firmware, embedded software, kernel-level software, or other hardware-adjacent system software.
• Deep understanding of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture concepts such as MMU, Cache Coherency, TLB, Timers, ISRs is a must.
• Knowledge in Safety and Security standards such as ISO26262, CERT-C and MISRA-C would be a plus.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools for software engineering tasks such as firmware debugging, regression triage, log analysis, test generation and technical research.
• Experience building AI agents or engineering assistants using retrieval-augmented generation, tool use or function calling, agent skills, or multi-step orchestration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing, crafting and developing system software relevant to ARM's Trusted Firmware Stack.
• Build and improve agentic workflows for trusted firmware engineering, spanning tasks such as codebase exploration, change planning, implementation support, bring-up, debugging, test execution, and documentation.
• Create reusable workflow components, tools, or skills that connect AI assistants to approved engineering context and systems, such as source repositories, technical documentation, issue trackers, build environments, and test infrastructure.
• Define clear validation and review steps for AI-assisted work. Evaluate generated changes and results for correctness, security, reliability, and maintainability before they are integrated.
• Work across firmware and system software interfaces, including early boot, EL3 runtime services, power management, operating system and hypervisors.
• Involving in sophisticated and next generation CPU architecture that drives our Tegra platform.
• Work with upstream community to develop software for latest ARM technologies such as Confidential Compute and help drive improvements to various specs such as PSCI, FFA, RMI.
• Participate in architectural explorations which include feasibility studies, safety evaluations and CPU performance analysis.

Skills

C/C++

Debugging low-level

Firmware experience

OS fundamentals

Computer architecture

Safety standards

AI tooling

AI agents / RAG tooling

Education

Bachelor/Master in CS or ECE

Tools

ARM Trusted Firmware

Kernel development

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Tegra System Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA to design and build system software for ARM Trusted Firmware, and to craft AI-assisted workflows connecting engineering tasks with approved contexts and systems. You will collaborate across firmware and system software interfaces, including early boot, power management, and CPU architecture exploration.

Required 5+ years in system software, strong C/C++ skills, firmware experience, and knowledge of safety standards.