Senior System Firmware Engineer - BIOS UEFI

NVIDIA•Hillsboro, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 fueled the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. Are you ready to change the next generation of computing? Join us at the forefront of technological advancement. What you’ll be doing: Designing, implementing, and delivering innovations for GPU based Client products with focus on firmware development. Working with a global team of BIOS(UEFI) developers on NVIDIA client designs. Designing and developing performance optimized UEFI/BIOS solutions using industry Standards. Instrumenting code to ensure maximum code coverage, writing and automating unit tests for each implemented module and maintain detailed unit test case reports. Providing software quality reports based on static analysis, code coverage, CPU load. Working with security team to ensure developed code is in line with product security goals. Partner closely with hardware teams to influence hardware design and review HW architecture & schematics. Working with QA/Test architects to come up with proper test tools and automation for qualifying the whole system software and firmware stack.

Requirements

Domain expertise in System BIOS (UEFI) Firmware development on X86 or ARM Platforms.
Strong experience with IBVs or EDK2 Firmware architecture.
Solid experience of end-to-end delivery of client products from definition to customer deployment.
Solid understanding of low-level interfaces between BIOS (UEFI) and OS like I2C/SPI/PCIe/JTAG etc. PCIe enumeration, IO at platform level for client products.
Experience working closely with HW teams, ODMs and vendors to introduce and support client platforms.
Experience with C/C++ development, bash/python for scripting, and debugging skills in embedded Linux/Windows operating environments.
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 exciting problems.
Bachelor’s Degree or higher; in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience, with demonstrated strong ability as individual contributor.

Nice To Haves

Proven record in delivering BIOS(UEFI) for ARM architecture based client products
Experience working with IBVs or IBV solutions

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and delivering innovations for GPU based Client products with focus on firmware development.
Working with a global team of BIOS(UEFI) developers on NVIDIA client designs.
Designing and developing performance optimized UEFI/BIOS solutions using industry Standards.
Instrumenting code to ensure maximum code coverage, writing and automating unit tests for each implemented module and maintain detailed unit test case reports.
Providing software quality reports based on static analysis, code coverage, CPU load.
Working with security team to ensure developed code is in line with product security goals.
Partner closely with hardware teams to influence hardware design and review HW architecture & schematics.
Working with QA/Test architects to come up with proper test tools and automation for qualifying the whole system software and firmware stack.