# Principal Software Engineer - Manufacturing & Factory

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

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## Description

We're searching for a highly motivated, technical leader to design, drive, and operationalize rack-scale factory and deployment flows for next-generation data center products. The ideal candidate will combine deep systems expertise, decisive technical leadership, and a passion for building reliable, debuggable, and scalable manufacturing and deployment solutions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and drive rack-scale/L11 flows for factory and initial data center deployment.

- Design and implement end-to-end factory workflows, including firmware flashing sequences, security provisioning, and deployment of software mitigations.

- Collaborate with data center architects, ODMs, and OEMs to define factory and data center requirements that ensure efficient and reliable production ramp.

- Champion reliability, debuggability and optimization in firmware, diagnostic and deployment tool design.

- Drive pre-silicon readiness for factory & manufacturing workflows for rack-scale products. Using NVIDIA's industry leading simulation & emulation technology.

- Mentor architects and engineering teams to grow them into future leaders.

- Make key technical decisions even when faced with ambiguity

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree or equivalent experience.

- 15+ years in the area of System architecture and design

- Deep experience in designing architecture for scalable and performant server systems, particularly at the SW/HW interface.

- Strong understanding of networking technology & protocols (e.g. Ethernet, Infiniband)

- Previous experience working with complex system software for accelerators such as GPUs, DPUs, or FPGAs

- Expertise in out-of-band and in-band management architectures.

- Knowledge of system management protocols such as Redfish and IPMI.

- Demonstrable experience in implementing left shift strategy to de-risk program execution. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Nice to Have:**

- Knowledge of large-scale cloud and cluster level deployment and management systems.

- Demonstrated track record of leading data center products across the entire lifecycle, spanning inception, pre-silicon development, post-silicon bring-up, manufacturing, and deployment.

## Skills

### Required
- System architecture and design
- Networking technology & protocols
- Complex system software for accelerators
- Out-of-band and in-band management architectures
- System management protocols

### Nice to have
- Large-scale cloud and cluster level deployment and management systems
- Data center products lifecycle management

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