Firmware Engineer

Job Title

Firmware Engineer

Role Summary

Join the System Control Firmware team to develop low-level firmware for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs. The role focuses on boot sequencing, power/clock/thermal management, and ensuring reliable operation across product programs and hardware platforms.

Work involves close cross-functional collaboration with hardware, software, and safety teams to deliver production-quality firmware for automotive, AI edge, data center, and robotics platforms.

Experience Level

Entry-level / Early career. The posting requests approximately 2+ years of professional embedded firmware experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include development, debugging, and program support for system control firmware.

• Design, implement, and optimize low-level C firmware for the Boot and Power Management Processor (BPMP).
• Diagnose and debug complex hardware/software boundary failures using boot logs and hardware traces.
• Provide hands-on technical support to active product programs and drive rapid resolutions with cross-functional teams.
• Write unit and integration tests, perform error injection on emulation platforms and physical boards, and develop test automation.
• Collaborate globally with hardware, software, and safety architecture teams to define system-level interfaces and requirements.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for immediate contribution; concise selection of nice-to-have items follows.

• 2+ years professional experience in embedded firmware development, low-level C programming, and memory-mapped register access.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware/software boundaries and experience with boot logs and hardware traces.
• Knowledge of SoC concepts: boot flows, interrupts, linker/build systems, and device-tree based configurations.
• Familiarity with low-level SoC infrastructure: clocks, resets, voltage rails, and power-gating behavior.
• Experience writing unit/integration tests and developing test automation for firmware.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for collaborating across distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (LLM/agent tooling) is expected.
• Nice-to-have: Rust for systems programming, ISO 26262 functional safety experience (FMEA), and secure-boot/security knowledge.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.