Senior System Software Engineer – Factory Bringup

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the bring-up process for new platforms in the factory at board, tray, rack, and cluster levels.

• Act as the software owner from the initial power-on stage, collaborating with hardware, firmware, diagnostics, and test engineering teams.

• Create factory workflows for firmware flashing across various components including BMC, HMC, SBIOS, VBIOS, NIC, and others.

• Execute version validation, security provisioning, power-cycle recovery, and retry handling processes.

• Deploy tools in partner factories and collaborate with ODMs, CMs, OEMs, and CSPs to establish requirements and integrate NVIDIA tools.

• Validate tools and infrastructure integrations within partner factories.

• Leverage AI coding agents to enhance development, testing, code review, log triage, and bug filing efficiency.

• Develop dependable AI-assisted development and testing pipelines.

• Identify failures across hardware and software stacks and address root causes when factory stations experience downtime.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in data center firmware, platform software, or factory/manufacturing test software, along with a BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Demonstrated success in building factory or data center automation, encompassing firmware flashing, diagnostics orchestration, provisioning, or log collection.

• Familiarity with out-of-band management for large-scale server deployments.

• Proficient in Python for production tools and orchestration frameworks.

• Working knowledge of C/C++, shell scripting, and Linux systems.

• Strong understanding of PCIe, USB, and SMBus/I2C hardware interfaces.

• Experience in debugging servers during initial bring-up phases.

• Previous collaboration with ODMs, CMs, or CSPs during New Product Introduction (NPI), bring-up, and volume production stages.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; capable of working across different time zones.

• Experience with rack-scale or multi-node GPU systems, NVLink switch trays, rack-level diagnostics, or bring-up of compute/switch trays.

• Knowledge of manufacturing diagnostic frameworks and factory test stations.

• Experience in designing robust factory workflows that enhance first-pass yield and minimize line downtime.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Benefits