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Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer

NVIDIA

Location

Santa Clara, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/9/2026

Compensation

$184,000 - $356,500 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.2% approval-37% YoY
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Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification and Bringup Engineer to join its Memory Subsystem Team. This role focuses on bare-metal firmware development, validation, and debugging for NVIDIA products. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to ensure successful silicon bring-up and feature enablement. The position offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a highly regarded company.

Requirements

  • BS or MS EE degree with a focus in embedded systems or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of proven experience in low-level firmware design and verification in pre and post silicon.
  • Hands-on experience debugging bare-metal firmware in RTL/SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches using Verdi or similar debug tools.
  • Excellent RTL and digital debug skills, with coding skills in C/C++/Python.
  • Experience with high-speed IO interfaces and understanding of data structures.
  • Proven understanding of PC systems, Windows OS, and Linux.

Responsibilities

  • Develop bare-metal firmware for NVLINK-C2C and validate firmware and silicon bring-up for NVIDIA products.
  • Collaborate in pre-silicon firmware development and testing to validate features.
  • Drive silicon bring-up, feature enablement, and debug on silicon.
  • Triage and resolve firmware issues observed during bring-up.
  • Debug hardware/firmware interaction issues, boot failures, training failures, and silicon issues.
  • Develop and maintain automation and AI-assisted flows to improve firmware development and verification.
  • Work closely with system software, RTL design, DV, emulation, and post-silicon teams to unblock progress.
  • Refine the interface bring-up and validation strategy.

Benefits

  • Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Nvidia Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

355

FY2026

Approval rate

99.2%

FY2026

LCA certified

7,667

FY2026

Entry-level share

11.9%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-37%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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