Principal Software Engineer, GPU Firmware and GPU System Software

What you'll do

• Act as the technical focal point for GPU firmware and system software with hyperscale customer engineering teams.
• Drive work streams to ensure customers understand GPU architecture, update sequencing, and recovery procedures.
• Synthesize customer feedback on manageability, security, and performance to influence NVIDIA’s product roadmap.
• Manage large-scale firmware update orchestration including multi-GPU sequencing, rollback strategies, and failure handling.
• Ensure GPU behaviors like error recovery, thermal protection, and power states are well-documented for customer integration.
• Identify cross-customer patterns in firmware issues to drive improvements in documentation, tooling, and test strategies.
• Coordinate with customers to ensure automation and recovery procedures are ready before each firmware release.

What we're looking for

• 15+ years of experience in GPU system software, GPU firmware, or accelerator platform engineering.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Deep understanding of GPU architecture internals including streaming multiprocessors, GEMM execution, and memory hierarchy.
• Understanding of multi-GPU fabric architectures like NVLink and how firmware coordinates across rack-scale systems.
• Knowledge of GPU firmware components such as VBIOS, InfoROM, and microcontroller firmware interaction with the driver stack.
• Experience managing firmware update lifecycles at scale, including sequencing, rollback strategies, and emergency recovery.
• Understanding of GPU error handling, recovery flows, and health monitoring telemetry like Xid errors and ECC counters.
• Knowledge of GPU security features including secure boot, code signing, attestation, and multi-tenancy isolation.