Senior System Software Engineer, OpenBMC

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 fuelled the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — 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 form teams with the smartest people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

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What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for implementing the Unified Firmware architecture and System management software across NVIDIA server platforms.

• Leading end-to-end platform architecture, spanning hardware abstraction, firmware design, security, and scalable system management using OpenBMC.

• 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 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.

• Generate API documentation from code using Swagger or similar tools. Help generate content for user guides to pursue customer problems etc.

• Drive product life cycles with QA teams to productize the module, and be responsible as a product owner.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor of Science Degree (or higher) or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 10+ years of experience

• OpenBMC Firmware development experience on X86 or ARM Platforms including BMC-BIOS communication, power/thermal management, firmware update, device monitoring, firmware security, etc.

• System Management software development experience in Blade/Rack server platforms with exposure to standards IPMI, KCS, DMTF Standards(PLDM, MCTP, SPDM and Redfish) etc.

• Domain expertise in BMC system-on-chip solution from one or more vendors like ASPEED, Nuvoton, Axiado etc.  

• Design and architecture of errors, stats & configuration appropriate to CPU, DIMM, SSDs, NICs, IB, BMC etc. for an enterprise readiness of NVIDIA Server platforms.

• Deep understanding on REST architecture style especially JSON over HTTPs with OAuth

• Excellent 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.

• Knowledge of Linux fundamentals, various Linux distributions and packages, Linux upgrade mechanisms, building and deploying Linux images.

• 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 challenging problems

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Contributor to industry standards like OpenCompute, OpenBMC, IPMI, DMTF, Redfish and open source.

• Expertise in system software and platform security for x86/ARM based Rack/Blade server systems.

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