Firmware PCIe Engineer

Overview

• Ready to kickstart your career at the forefront of accelerated computing? At NVIDIA, our inventions power everything from scientific breakthroughs to the generative AI that is reshaping our world.
• We are looking for a motivated Firmware Engineer to join our team as we transition into an AI-native engineering organization.
• In this role, you will focus on building our new Firmware verification by supporting the NIC PCIe Test Bench (NPTB).
• You will play a crucial role in ensuring our firmware integrates seamlessly into our advanced cluster-level verification environments, enabling full-stack verification and performance testing for our next-generation networking products.
• What You'll Be Doing: Firmware Integration: Support the integration of PCIe firmware into the NPTB cluster-level verification environment, ensuring end-to-end stack integrity.
• Sequence Development: Assist in developing, maintaining, and overriding firmware initialization sequences to adapt them for the NPTB simulation environment.
• Live Build Support: Help maintain the "Firmware Live Build" flow, ensuring verification environments can utilize the latest firmware binaries independently of formal FW release timelines.
• Cross-Functional Debugging: Collaborate closely with Verification (DV), Chip Design, and Architecture engineers to debug firmware-hardware interactions at the cluster level.
• AI-Native Automation & Tooling: Leverage AI tools and scripting languages to automate workflows, test executions, and result analysis, embodying our AI-native engineering culture.
• Behavior Modeling: Contribute to the development of FW-centric verification components that mimic firmware behavior, including configuration, ISR handling, and gateway interactions.
• What We Need to See: B.Sc.
• in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience or a strong academic background in embedded systems, firmware development, or hardware verification.
• Familiarity with scripting languages, particularly Python, for automation and tooling.
• A solid understanding of computer architecture, memory interfaces, and hardware-software interactions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
• Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd: Familiarity with the PCIe architecture and networking protocols.
• Exposure to hardware verification methodologies and languages (e.g., UVM, SystemVerilog).
• Experience with continuous integration tools, simulation environments, and version control systems (e.g., Git, Gerrit).
• A proactive approach to learning new technologies and tools, including a strong interest in AI-native development workflows (e.g., Cursor, LLMs).
• We value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate in our hiring or promotion practices.