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# Principal Firmware Engineer - Data Center Server...

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $272,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Data Centers, Data Center Infrastructure Management (CIM), Software Debugging, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Perforce, Systems Architecture, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Git, Build Management, Server Operating Systems & Platforms
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gm0csd

## About the Role

+ 15+ years of relevant experience working on server firmware (BMC) and platform software development

 + BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education or equivalent experience

 + Hands on experience with data center health management workflow. Proven record of delivering server firmware for large data centers..

 + Strong knowledge of data center management, server architecture and server manageability in data centers and strong and demonstrable skill in C/C++ and Python

 + Experience programming and debugging skills for server platforms.

 + Experience in SCM (e.g. Git, Perforce) and project management tools like Jira.

 + You should possess excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of team-work, love to produce quality work and commitment to finish your tasks every single day.

 + You are a self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to complicated problems and hands on with coding.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 + Hands on experience with data center health management

 + Hands on with x86 or ARM system architecture.

 + Proven technical leaders to drive large complex problem with 50+ engineers working

## Description

We are looking for a strong technical architect to own end to end manageability architecture for these products in data centers. You will work with various component leads internally and externally, drive customer use cases, align architecture with customer requirements and release best products to market.

Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

What you'll be doing:

 + Drive server management for large clusters and data centers deploying GPUs and Grace solution from Nvidia.

 + Work with data center architects and cloud customers to narrow down on requirements for implementation to ensure speed of light product development.

 + Work with internal teams to make sure requirements are designed and implemented in right way with each firmware and software module

 + Collaborate with other leads to design & build data center health management workflow.

 + Drive reliability and optimization in firmware architecture from a data center view point.

 + Work closely with cluster bring up team and resolve issues at Speed of Light


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