Senior Firmware Engineer

Overview

• NVIDIA Israel is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Firmware Engineer to join our NIC/Switch Firmware Development Team in Tel Aviv.
• The successful candidate will design and develop innovative firmware features to unleash the full potential of NVIDIA’s ConnectX/Switch architecture.
• Our Firmware Team develops cutting-edge networking features for cloud, HPC, and storage.
• This position requires a broad background in NIC or Switch architecture, along with a proven ability to develop robust and efficient solutions to complex design challenges.
• The Firmware Team drives the data growth of the world’s largest companies.
• With talented engineers around the globe, our work environment is dynamic and meaningful.
• What You Will Be Doing: Deepen Your Expertise : Gain a thorough understanding of system debugging, networking technology and stacks, as well as the HW/FW/SW relationships.
• Innovate Firmware Features : Design and implement new firmware features in NVIDIA's NIC/Switch Firmware core (e.g., NVIDIA’s ConnectX/Spectrum products).
• Optimize Performance : Characterize and refine key firmware design elements and code to maximize performance and ensure robustness and flexibility.
• Learn Complex Project Management : Understand how a large, complex software project is operated, maintained, qualified, and released, and learn how hardware and firmware are developed.
• What We Need to See: Educational Background : Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer/Electronics Engineering.
• Experience : Over 8 years of experience in embedded systems design.
• Embedded Programming : Experience with data plane processors such as DSP, ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, or similar.
• Programming Skills : Proficiency in C-language programming within a performance-sensitive environment.
• Technical Understanding : Strong understanding of hardware/firmware interaction and software/hardware partitioning.
• Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd: Firmware Design and Verification : Prior experience in firmware design and verification.
• Protocol Knowledge : Familiarity with peripheral and network protocols.
• Technical Expertise : Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms fundamentals.
• Personal Attributes : Motivated and independent, with strong social skills and the ability to work effectively in a team.
• NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU revolutionized the PC gaming market and AI industry.
• The company’s groundbreaking work in accelerated computing, an advanced form of computing at the intersection of computer graphics, high-performance computing, and AI - is reshaping trillion-dollar industries such as transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing, while fuelling growth in many others.
• In 2020, NVIDIA acquired Mellanox, a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure.
• Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance.
• NVIDIA is widely regarded as one of the technology world’s most desirable employers.
• We have some of the most forward-thinking and dedicated people in the world working for us.
• If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you.