Manager, PCIe Firmware - Physical Layer

Job Title

Manager, PCIe Firmware - Physical Layer

Role Summary

Lead a newly formed Physical Layer team inside the PCIe Firmware organization responsible for PCIe link bring-up, equalization, recovery, and physical-layer customer escalations across NVIDIA's networking products.

The role is a hands-on first-line manager/player-coach: guide debug work directly, grow engineers and tech leads, coordinate across chip design, architecture, software, validation, and customer engineering, and drive recurring improvements.

Experience Level

Senior — 8+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering management or equivalent technical lead experience on a path into management.

Responsibilities

The manager will run delivery for physical-layer firmware, provide technical leadership, and engage directly in complex debug and customer escalations.

• Lead and mentor a focused physical-layer firmware team as a player-coach.
• Own delivery for PCIe link bring-up, equalization, recovery, and cross-generation behavior across multiple products.
• Drive triage to root cause and convert point fixes into reusable improvements.
• Work cross-functionally with Chip Design, Architecture, Software, Validation, and Customer Engineering.
• Serve as the technical reference for physical-layer scope and clarify when an issue lies outside that scope.
• Apply AI tools to triage, debug, and capture knowledge within the team.

Requirements

Must-have qualifications and skills for the role.

• 8+ years of engineering experience overall.
• 3+ years of engineering management or equivalent technical lead experience.
• Strong PCIe foundation: link training, equalization, recovery flows, and cross-generation behavior.
• Proven track record of driving difficult link issues to root cause using state traces and eye diagrams alongside silicon and signal integrity engineers.
• Ability to grow engineers, run a delivery cadence, and prioritize under constraints.
• Hands-on operator mentality: step in to unblock execution.
• Clear communicator with engineers, partners, and customers.

Nice-to-have:

• Hands-on PCIe link bring-up on real silicon, signal integrity work, lane margining, or cross-generation interop.
• Direct experience with high-speed SerDes behavior, thermal-sensitive link issues, or customer-facing escalations.
• Practical use of AI/ML tools in engineering for pattern matching, trace summarization, or knowledge bases.
• Familiarity with networking products, Linux, and Python scripting.
• Experience operating across HW/FW/SW boundaries.

Education Requirements

Degree 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.