Principal Software Engineer, Rack-Scale System Software — CSP Engagements

NVIDIA
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 272,000 - 431,250 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["System software","Firmware","Fabric management","Telemetry","Health APIs"]

Lead the rack-scale system software and firmware efforts for CSP engagements, coordinating across CSP engineering teams to ensure fabric management, NVSwitch error handling, health telemetry APIs, and firmware-driven recovery are robust and production-ready. Drive architecture alignment, capture CSP feedback, and ensure integration readiness and fleet-scale operability across multi-component systems.

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NVIDIA
NVIDIA
2 months ago

Principal Software Engineer, Rack-Scale System Software — CSP Engagements

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Job Summary

Lead the rack-scale system software and firmware efforts for CSP engagements, coordinating across CSP engineering teams to ensure fabric management, NVSwitch error handling, health telemetry APIs, and firmware-driven recovery are robust and production-ready. Drive architecture alignment, capture CSP feedback, and ensure integration readiness and fleet-scale operability across multi-component systems.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive rack-scale SW/FW architecture alignment across CSP engagements, including fabric management software, link health monitoring, GPU/NVSwitch error handling, serviceability features, and multi-component firmware orchestration
  • •Lead technical work streams with CSP engineering teams on rack-scale system software, ensuring understanding of fabric management, NVSwitch behavior, error handling and recovery policies, health telemetry APIs, and SW/FW-controlled recovery
  • •Capture and synthesize CSP engineering feedback on rack-scale system software—health monitoring APIs, serviceability workflows, firmware update orchestration, and error recovery behavior—and advocate architecture decisions
  • •Collaborate with multi-functional teams to ensure customer operational requirements are reflected in system software and firmware development
  • •Identify cross-CSP patterns in rack-scale SW/FW issues, error handling behavior, and system configuration practices; drive documentation, tooling, and test strategy improvements
  • •Collaborate with execution teams on left-shift strategy—ensuring customer-side SW/FW integration work is identified early and completed before hardware availability
  • •Make critical technical decisions on rack-scale system SW/FW tradeoffs and mitigate execution risks through early CSP engagement

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 272,000 - 431,250 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityBenefits

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of experience in system software, platform firmware, or large-scale distributed systems engineering.
  • •BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • •Deep understanding of rack-scale system software challenges: multi-component coordination, error propagation, health monitoring, and serviceability/reliability
  • •Experience with fabric management software, cluster management, or system-level orchestration frameworks; familiarity with firmware architectures and update lifecycle management
  • •Understanding of error handling and recovery design patterns in distributed systems; fault isolation, retry policies, graceful degradation
Experience:15+ yearsHigh-performance computingGPUData centerDistributed systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:System softwareFirmwareFabric managementTelemetryHealth APIs
Tech Stack:NVSwitchGPUFirmwareDistributed systems

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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