# Firmware Team Lead

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 2; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 3
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join NVIDIA's team as a Firmware Team Lead in Santa Clara, CA, or remotely. You will manage a team ensuring GSP firmware reliability, robustness, and pre-silicon readiness across product lines.

**Job Overview** As a Firmware Team Lead at NVIDIA, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining the reliability, robustness, and pre-silicon readiness of GSP firmware. You will lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on GSP firmware stability, field debuggability, resiliency, and pre-silicon readiness for upcoming chips.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team owning GSP firmware stability, field debuggability, and resiliency, along with pre-silicon readiness for upcoming chips.

- Own release execution for GSP firmware across concurrent release trains, dedication tracking, blocker burndown, and go/no-go readiness.

- Partner with technical leads and architects to drive technical direction and delivery.

- Drive measurable improvement in test coverage and stability metrics, reported monthly.

- Coordinate architectural alignment, project scoping, prioritization, and execution accountability.

- Champion the delivery of robust, high-quality GPU driver software.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronic engineering, or a related field.

- 6+ years of proven experience in related areas with at least 3+ years of management experience.

- Strong systems-software background with hands-on C programming, debugging skills, kernel, driver, firmware, or embedded experience.

- Demonstrated ownership of release processes and quality metrics in a shipping product.

- Experience managing incident and critical issue response with customer exposure.

**Nice to Have**

- Proven expertise in GPU driver development and validation.

- Experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones and regions.

- Outstanding leadership skills with a history of successfully implementing complex engineering projects.

- Collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to effectively partner with collaborators at all levels.

- Experience bringing up software on pre-silicon platforms such as simulation or emulation.

**What We Offer**

- Highly competitive salaries with expected base salary ranges: 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 2; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 3.

- Comprehensive benefits package.

- Equity eligibility.

## Skills

### Required
- C programming
- debugging
- kernel
- driver
- firmware
- embedded systems
- GPU driver development
- validation

### Nice to have
- GPU driver development and validation
- distributed engineering teams management
- leadership skills
- complex engineering projects implementation
- pre-silicon platforms software development

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