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[Remote] Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware

Remote · South Africa Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a leading technology company known for its groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a firmware engineering organization focused on delivering manageability firmware for Data Center Compute Systems, overseeing architecture, execution, and quality across multiple programs.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • You will also be eligible for equity and [benefits](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/).

Company Overview

  • NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.nvidia.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 448 in 2026, 1872 in 2025, 1354 in 2024, 976 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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