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NVIDIA

Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware

NVIDIA
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onsite senior full-time Santa Clara, CA

First indexed 18 Jun 2026

Description

We are looking for an excellent Senior Engineering Manager to lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering end-to-end manageability firmware for NVIDIA's next generation Data Center Compute Systems.

This role owns HGX product line and OpenBMC-based management firmware and MCU firmware components in data center platforms, including architecture, execution, quality, reliability, telemetry, and customer readiness.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering OpenBMC based firmware and MCU firmware for next-generation Data Center Compute Systems.
  • Own HGX platform as a lead for Firmware and System software readiness working across the organization.
  • Define and drive the long-term firmware roadmap, balancing architectural innovation with product execution and delivery milestones.
  • Drive architecture strategy across BMC, MCU, platform software, manageability, health management, and data center firmware interfaces.
  • Lead execution across multiple programs, coordinating priorities, hiring, managing cross component dependencies, and delivery commitments across a large engineering team.
  • Collaborate with data center architects, cloud customers, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope implementation, and deliver at Speed of Light.
  • Partner with hardware, systems, security, validation, manufacturing, field, and customer engineering teams to ensure scalable manageability architecture across data center products.
  • Manage customer and executive escalations for complex firmware, platform, and deployment issues.
  • Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization with strong technical leadership, execution discipline, and quality culture.

Requirements:

  • BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ overall years of proven experience in server firmware, BMC/OpenBMC, MCU firmware, platform software, or data center systems.
  • 6+ years of experience managing software/firmware engineering teams.
  • Strong technical leadership in data center system architecture, server manageability, telemetry, health management, and reliability at scale.
  • Proven record delivering production firmware for large data centers with strong quality, debug, and operational discipline.
  • Experience leading architecture and execution across multiple programs, cross-functional teams, and customer-facing deliverables.
  • Strong understanding of firmware development lifecycle, validation, release management, issue triage, and production support.
  • Excellent communication skills, strong work ethic, sound judgment, and the ability to align teams through complex technical and business tradeoffs.

Benefits:

  • Equity
  • Benefits