# Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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

## Skills

### Required
- server firmware
- BMC/OpenBMC
- MCU firmware
- platform software
- data center systems
- firmware development lifecycle
- validation
- release management
- issue triage
- production support

### Nice to have
- Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations
- Hands-on experience with BMC firmware/software stack
- C/C++
- Python
- debugging server platform
- Expertise with OOB management DMTF protocols and standards
- Embedded Linux
- FreeRTOS
- Yocto/BitBake
- Git
- Perforce
- Jira
- modern firmware CI/CD practices

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