NVIDIA · 1 day ago
Principal Firmware Engineer - Data Center Server Management
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$272K/yr - $426K/yr
15+ years expNVIDIA is a leading technology company known for its innovations in GPU and AI computing. They are seeking a Principal Firmware Engineer to lead the manageability architecture for data center products, ensuring optimal performance and reliability in server management for large clusters.
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Responsibilities
Drive server management for large clusters and data centers deploying GPUs and Grace solution from Nvidia
Work with data center architects and cloud customers to narrow down on requirements for implementation to ensure speed of light product development
Work with internal teams to make sure requirements are designed and implemented in right way with each firmware and software module
Collaborate with other leads to design & build data center health management workflow
Drive reliability and optimization in firmware architecture from a data center view point
Work closely with cluster bring up team and resolve issues at Speed of Light
Own firmware delivered to data centers in terms of quality, reliability and telemetry performance
Qualification
Required
15+ years of relevant experience working on server firmware (BMC) and platform software development
BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education or equivalent experience
Hands on experience with data center health management workflow. Proven record of delivering server firmware for large data centers
Strong knowledge of data center management, server architecture and server manageability in data centers and strong and demonstrable skill in C/C++ and Python
Experience programming and debugging skills for server platforms
Experience in SCM (e.g. Git, Perforce) and project management tools like Jira
Excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of team-work, love to produce quality work and commitment to finish your tasks every single day
Self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to complicated problems and hands on with coding
Preferred
Hands on experience with data center health management
Hands on with x86 or ARM system architecture
Proven technical leaders to drive large complex problem with 50+ engineers working
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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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