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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware - **Company:** NVIDIA Corporation - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $272,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JIRA, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Data Centers, Software Debugging, Linux on Embedded Systems, Firmware, FreeRTOS, Python (Programming Language), Perforce, Release Management, Systems Architecture, System Software, Git, Yocto - **Published:** August 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Manager--Engineering---Data-Center-Firmware_JR2019986 ## About the Role We are looking for an excellent Senior Engineering Manager to lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering end-to-end manageability firmware for NVIDIA's next generation Data Center Compute Systems. This role owns HGX product line and OpenBMC-based management firmware and MCU firmware components in data center platforms, including architecture, execution, quality, reliability, telemetry, and customer readiness. We are seeking an experienced senior leader with strong technical depth, broad system perspective, and a proven ability to lead large teams through complex product cycles. This role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA, USA. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!, * BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education or equivalent experience. * 12+ overall years of proven experience in server firmware, BMC/OpenBMC, MCU firmware, platform software, or data center systems. * 6+ years of experience managing software/firmware engineering teams. * Strong technical leadership in data center system architecture, server manageability, telemetry, health management, and reliability at scale. * Proven record delivering production firmware for large data centers with strong quality, debug, and operational discipline. * Experience leading architecture and execution across multiple programs, cross-functional teams, and customer-facing deliverables. * Strong understanding of firmware development lifecycle, validation, release management, issue triage, and production support. * Excellent communication skills, strong work ethic, sound judgment, and the ability to align teams through complex technical and business tradeoffs. Ways to stand out from the crowd: * Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations, including multi-team execution and senior technical leaders. * High level of ownership to deliver products working across matric organization, having done that for a couple of products. Having mindset bucks stop at me. * Hands-on experience with BMC firmware/software stack, MCU firmware, C/C++, Python, and debugging server platform. Expertise with OOB management DMTF protocols and standards such as MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, and Redfish. * Experience with Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, Yocto/BitBake, Git, Perforce, Jira, and modern firmware CI/CD practices. * Proven ability to drive complex architecture, quality, reliability, and customer escalation work across 25+ engineers or similarly large engineering teams. ## Description * Lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering OpenBMC based firmware and MCU firmware for next-generation Data Center Compute Systems. * Own HGX platform as a lead for Firmware and System software readiness working across the organization. * Define and drive the long-term firmware roadmap, balancing architectural innovation with product execution and delivery milestones. * Drive architecture strategy across BMC, MCU, platform software, manageability, health management, and data center firmware interfaces. * Lead execution across multiple programs, coordinating priorities, hiring, managing cross component dependencies, and delivery commitments across a large engineering team. * Collaborate with data center architects, cloud customers, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope implementation, and deliver at Speed of Light. * Partner with hardware, systems, security, validation, manufacturing, field, and customer engineering teams to ensure scalable manageability architecture across data center products. * Manage customer and executive escalations for complex firmware, platform, and deployment issues. * Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization with strong technical leadership, execution discipline, and quality culture. ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers - Stephen Jones - NVIDIA](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1303-coffee-with-developers-stephen-jones-nvidia) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Building a hypercar from scratch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/607-building-a-hypercar-from-scratch) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [Should Tech Managers Be Developers First? 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