Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware

NVIDIA is an AI computing company developing technologies for artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, visualization, and data center systems. The Senior Manager will lead a large firmware engineering organization responsible for end-to-end manageability firmware, OpenBMC firmware, and MCU firmware for next-generation data center compute systems, including architecture, execution, quality, reliability, telemetry, and customer readiness.

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

Requirements:

• 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