Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a leading technology company known for its advancements in GPU technology and AI computing. The Senior System Software Engineer will design and implement OpenBMC Firmware for GPU Server platforms, focusing on performance analysis and coding manageability features, while collaborating with team members on design and testing.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement OpenBMC Firmware for GPU Server platforms focus on but not limited to Arm architecture
- Hands on work with bringing up of BMC firmware, performance analysis and coding various manageability features for NVIDIA’s Server platforms
- Developing and reviewing code, writing and reviewing design documents, reviewing QA test plan and working closely with all team members to achieve consensus for design and testability as per product requirements
- Designing solutions for errors, stats & configuration appropriate to CPU, GPU, DIMM, SSDs, NICs, IB, PSU, BMC, FPGA, CPLD etc. for enterprise readiness of NVIDIA Server platforms
- Designing and developing performance optimized active monitoring BMC solutions using DMTF Standards including MCTP, Redfish, SPDM and PLDM specifications
- 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. Working closely with hardware teams to influence hardware design and review HW architecture & schematics
Skills
- A Bachelor of Science Degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience
- Domain expertise in BMC Firmware development on X86 or ARM Platforms including BMC-BIOS communication, thermal management, power management, firmware update, device monitoring, firmware security, etc
- Board Bring-up expertise with hands-on experience in Device drivers like I2C/I3C, SPI, PCIe, SMBus, Mail-box etc. as well as the device trees for uboot and Linux kernel
- OOB or In-band System Management experience with exposure to standards IPMI, KCS, DMTF Standards (PLDM, MCTP, Redfish, etc), PMBus, NVMe, etc
- Understanding on REST architecture style especially JSON over HTTPs with OAuth
- Strong programming and scripting skills using C/C++, Bash, Python, Go etc. both for Linux user-space programs and system programs with thorough code reviewing skills
- Strong in Linux fundamentals, various Linux distributions and packages, Linux upgrade mechanisms, building and deploying Linux images
- 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
- Self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to challenging problems
- Contributor to industry standards like Open Compute, OpenBMC, IPMI, DMTF Standards, and open source
- Expertise in system software and platform security for x86/ARM based Rack/Blade server systems
Benefits
- Equity
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