NVIDIA
Senior Firmware Engineer - GPU
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of proven experience in relevant roles.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Develops and validates boot, firmware, and security software for NVIDIA SoCs and GPUs across automotive, embedded, and data center platforms, from pre-silicon development through silicon bring-up.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and validate SoC and GPU boot and security software.
- Participate in pre-silicon simulation and emulation and silicon power-on bring-up; debug and resolve boot-stack issues.
- Collaborate with architecture, software, and hardware teams on next-generation SoCs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience).
- Proficiency in bare-metal firmware development, particularly with PCIE, ACPI and ARM/RISC-V technologies.
- Expertise in C programming languages and strong debugging skills.
- Defensive security programming skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with boot processes on sophisticated SoCs and GPU software kernel drivers and firmware.
- Pre-silicon or post-silicon bring-up experience; experience with GenAI workflows or third-party SoC vendors is also noted.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary, Level 3); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4)
Tools
PCIE, ACPI, ARM, RISC-V, C, GenAI
AI focus
Use of GenAI-based workflows for system software development and debugging is a preferred qualification. NVIDIA also states it uses AI tools in recruiting.
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