Senior System Software Engineer, GPU Firmware

Overview

• Do you enjoy hacking and tinkering at the lowest levels of software? Are you capable of designing and implementing clever firmware solutions in heavily resource-constrained environments? If so, you’re primed to help develop the boot software that powers the world’s best GPUs.
• We are searching for a top-notch software engineer to fill a challenging, yet fun role on our GPU Firmware team.
• You will be joining a team whose primary mission is solving the intricate enigma of securing and innovating the boot process for our GPUs, while dealing with the formidable constraints of boot-time and storage space.
• This is your chance to create waves in the industry while directly working with and alongside some of the most top-valued diverse minds in the GPU business.
• Your goal will be to shape the future of GPU technologies doing exactly what you enjoy: solving puzzles.
• If this sounds interesting and you’re up for the task, we’d certainly like to hear from you! What you’ll be doing: Design, develop, test, debug, and optimize GPU firmware throughout the entire GPU lifecycle.
• Design and implement creative solutions for boot software.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and business teams to transform new firmware features from idea to reality.
• Interact with leading OS and PC vendors to improve and innovate on the startup experience.
• Improve team software process and core infrastructure via projects dealing with build systems and regression farms.
• Continuously evaluate and improve security for firmware that functions as a root of trust for flash and boot security.
• Evaluate and improve control-plane and management interfaces of the GPU Work with hardware teams to improve NVIDIA’s GPU hardware security, manageability, etc.
• What we need to see: BS or MS degree or equivalent experience in EE/CS/CE.
• 5+ years’ experience in developing device BIOS, firmware, or other low-level software.
• Even stronger communication skills.
• Sense of humor heavily encouraged, but not required.
• Deep understanding of software process.
• Secure software fundamentals including cryptography, authentication/attestation, chains of trust, and understanding of common SW security vulnerabilities.
• Easy to work with, as you’ll constantly work closely with both hardware designers and other software engineers to design, develop, and debug functional (and non-functional!) aspects of GPU subsystems.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Experience in x86 assembly and in-depth knowledge of the PC architecture.
• Expertise with RISCV and other microarchitectures.
• Proficient with PCI/PCIe architecture.
• Experience working on protocols like MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, etc Good knowledge on developing for UEFI environments.
• We are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, and as a result have some of the most brilliant and talented people in the world working for us.
• If you're clever, creative, and driven, we'd love to have you join the team.