# Principal Software Engineer, GPU Firmware and GPU System Software — CSP Engagements

Hiring organization: [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/90a16ce5-26f7-427f-90f4-3af0f7aa5a1b

Listed on NVIDIA's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Principal
- Salary: 272000 – 431250 USD per year

## Summary

This role serves as the technical bridge between NVIDIA and hyperscale cloud providers, owning GPU firmware integration, fleet-scale deployment strategy, and the translation of customer operational challenges into product improvements. It suits someone with deep GPU architecture expertise and proven success managing mission-critical firmware updates across massive deployments.

_Our summary, not NVIDIA's wording._

## Skills named

Thermal Management

## Required

- 15+ years GPU system software, firmware, or accelerator platform engineering experience
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent)
- Deep understanding of GPU architecture internals: streaming multiprocessors, GEMM execution, compute kernels, memory hierarchy
- Understanding of multi-GPU fabric architectures like NVLink
- Understanding of GPU firmware architecture: VBIOS, microcontroller firmware, InfoROM, and driver stack interaction
- Experience with firmware update lifecycle management at scale: sequencing, A/B updates, rollback, staged rollout, recovery
- Understanding of GPU error handling and recovery flows
- Experience with GPU health monitoring and telemetry: Xid errors, thermal events, power events, ECC counters
- Customer obsession with proven success influencing engineering teams on quality and fleet manageability

## Nice to have

- Direct experience with NVIDIA GPU VBIOS or microcontroller firmware or driver internals
- Background in GPU fleet management at 10K+ GPU scale
- Experience with GPU error taxonomy and building operational runbooks
- Understanding of GPU security: secure boot chain, code signing, attestation, debug authentication, multi-tenancy isolation
- Familiarity with GPU power management architecture and its impact on workload performance

Apply on NVIDIA's site: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Principal-Software-Engineer--GPU-Firmware-and-GPU-System-Software---CSP-Engagements_JR2020319