Director, Tegra Firmware

NVIDIA
Santa Clara
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 320,000 - 488,750 annuallyFunction: Hardware, Embedded & Systems EngineeringSkills: ["Technical judgment","Communication","Cross-functional leadership"]

Lead foundational firmware development for Tegra CPU and system-on-chip platforms, guiding globally distributed teams through architecture, pre-silicon readiness, silicon bring-up, and long-term production support. Own critical areas including CPU boot, memory/coherency initialization, multicore startup, power-state transitions, secure and confidential computing, and OS handoff. Partner across hardware, OS, safety, security, and ecosystem teams to deliver production firmware aligned with automotive/industrial safety and security standards.

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Director, Tegra Firmware

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Job Summary

Lead foundational firmware development for Tegra CPU and system-on-chip platforms, guiding globally distributed teams through architecture, pre-silicon readiness, silicon bring-up, and long-term production support. Own critical areas including CPU boot, memory/coherency initialization, multicore startup, power-state transitions, secure and confidential computing, and OS handoff. Partner across hardware, OS, safety, security, and ecosystem teams to deliver production firmware aligned with automotive/industrial safety and security standards.
Location: Santa Clara
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hardware, Embedded & Systems Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow globally distributed firmware teams and engineering managers.
  • •Own delivery from architecture and pre-silicon development through bring-up, production, and long-term support.
  • •Direct development of CPU boot, memory and coherency initialization, multicore startup, power-state transitions, confidential compute, and OS handoff.
  • •Partner with CPU, SoC, hardware, verification, OS, DRIVE OS, safety, security, and product teams to deliver integrated platform solutions.
  • •Drive pre-silicon readiness, silicon bring-up, fault injection, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and development automation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 320,000 - 488,750 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • •12+ years of experience in embedded firmware, system software, or low-level platform software.
  • •7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers or distributed teams.
  • •Proven success delivering complex CPU or SoC firmware from architecture through production.
  • •Deep knowledge of CPU/multicore systems, caches, coherency, memory, interrupts, power management, and hardware-software interfaces, including bare-metal/real-time firmware and bootloaders.
Experience:Embedded firmwareSystem softwareLow-level platform softwareCPUSoCAutomotiveRoboticsIndustrial automationEdge AI
Education:
Skills:Technical judgmentCommunicationCross-functional leadership
Tech Stack:Embedded firmwareSystem softwareLow-level platform softwareCPU bootMemory initializationCoherencyMulticore startupPower-state transitionsConfidential computeOS handoffSecure bootSecure design reviewsLinux internalsBare-metal firmwareReal-time firmwareBootloadersARM Trusted FirmwareUEFIRTOSHardware bring-up

Company Brief

NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs, AI accelerators, and system-on-chip products for gaming, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive markets, enabling advanced graphics, AI, and high-performance computing solutions worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1993
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