NVIDIA
Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years.
- Education
- BS or MS EE degree with focus in embedded systems (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Develops and verifies bare-metal firmware for NVLINK-C2C, bringing up and debugging firmware and silicon across pre- and post-silicon development.
What you'll do
- Develop and test firmware; validate features before silicon and drive bring-up, feature enablement, and debug on silicon.
- Triage firmware, boot, training, and hardware/firmware interaction issues; isolate root causes and drive fixes.
- Develop automation and AI-assisted verification flows and coordinate with software, RTL, DV, emulation, and post-silicon teams.
What they ask for
- BS or MS EE degree focused on embedded systems, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of low-level firmware design and verification experience in pre- and post-silicon.
- Hands-on debugging of bare-metal firmware in RTL / SystemVerilog / UVM testbenches using Verdi or similar tools, correlating firmware execution with RTL behavior.
- RTL and digital-debug skills; understanding and coding skills in C/C++/Python.
Nice to have
- Experience developing firmware with AI agents.
- Experience with high-speed IO interfaces and understanding of data structures.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
NVLINK-C2C, RTL, SystemVerilog, UVM, Verdi, C/C++, Python, Linux
AI focus
Develops automation and AI-assisted flows for firmware development and verification; firmware development with AI agents is beneficial.
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