NVIDIA
Principal Software Engineer, GPU Firmware and GPU System Software — CSP Engagements
$272K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, OR, Remote
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- 15+ years in GPU system software, GPU firmware, or accelerator platform engineering.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Serves as the technical focal point for CSP customers integrating and operating NVIDIA GPU firmware and system software at fleet scale, while driving customer feedback and cross-customer improvements.
What you'll do
- Lead CSP engineering work streams on GPU firmware architecture, update sequencing, recovery, and power management.
- Gather customer feedback and champion priorities in NVIDIA’s firmware and software roadmap and delivery plan.
- Drive large-scale firmware update orchestration and identify cross-CSP issues to improve documentation, tooling, and testing.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of experience in GPU system software, GPU firmware, or accelerator platform engineering.
- Deep understanding of GPU architecture internals and how firmware and driver decisions affect compute performance.
- Understanding of multi-GPU fabric architectures and GPU firmware architecture and driver-stack interaction.
- Experience with firmware updates at scale, GPU error recovery, and GPU health monitoring and telemetry.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with NVIDIA GPU VBIOS, GPU microcontroller firmware, or GPU driver internals.
- Background managing GPU fleets at 10K+ GPU scale.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
VBIOS, InfoROM, NVLink, Xid errors, ECC counters, GPU driver stack
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