This role pays more than
99%
of similar roles. Most pay
$202,375–$264,200
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$404k
versus about
$233k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Nvidia
Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
Nvidia currently has
896 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$184,000–$287,500
across 876 roles with salary data.
As the Director, Tegra Firmware, you will lead and grow globally distributed teams to develop foundational firmware for Tegra CPU and system-on-chip platforms. You will oversee the entire lifecycle from architecture and pre-silicon development through bring-up, production, and long-term support. Key responsibilities include managing CPU boot, memory initialization, power-state transitions, secure boot, and confidential computing while ensuring compliance with safety standards like ISO 26262 and IEC 61508. You will collaborate across hardware, verification, and OS teams to deliver integrated platforms for autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial automation, and edge AI. The role requires deep expertise in embedded systems, multicore architectures, Linux internals, and bootloaders. You will navigate complex technical challenges involving heterogeneous SoCs, fault injection, and hardware-in-the-loop testing to ensure reliable performance across multiple silicon generations for demanding high-performance computing applications.
Firmware
UEFI
BIOS
BMC
SDLC
System Architecture
PCIe
CXL
GPU
FPGA
InfiniBand
NVLink
High-Performance Computing
AI
NPI
RAS Architecture
Memory Management
Out of Band Management
CI/CD
Build Systems
GitHub Actions
AWS
ROCm
Firmware
Kernel
Agentic AI
Cursor
Claude
Copilot
Shift-left Development
Trunk Health
Software Release Pipelines