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.