Manager, PCIe Firmware - Physical Layer

Responsibilities

• Lead a focused team of physical layer firmware engineers as a player-coach - guiding debug directly while growing the team's engineers and tech leads.
• Own the team's delivery for PCIe link bring-up, equalization, recovery, and physical-layer-related customer escalations across multiple products.
• Partner with Chip Design, Architecture, Software, Validation, and Customer Engineering to drive issues to root cause and turn point fixes into reusable improvements.
• Act as the technical reference on physical layer scope - both for triage and for cleanly identifying when an issue is not physical layer.
• Champion AI-native engineering inside the team and across the organization, applying AI tools to triage, debug, and knowledge capture.
• What we need to see:
• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ overall years of engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering management or equivalent tech lead experience on a path into management.
• Strong PCIe foundation: link training, equalization, recovery flows, and cross-generation behavior.
• A track record of personally driving hard link issues to root cause, working from state traces and eye diagrams alongside silicon and signal integrity engineers.
• Proven ability to grow engineers, run a delivery cadence, and make prioritization calls under constraint.
• An active operator: when execution is blocked, you step in.
• Clear communicator across engineers, partners, and customers.
• Ways to stand out of the crowd:
• Hands-on PCIe link bring-up on real silicon, signal integrity work, lane margining, or cross-generation interop.
• Direct experience with high-speed SerDes behavior, thermal-sensitive link issues, or customer-facing escalation work.
• Practical use of AI/ML tools in engineering - pattern matching across logs, summarizing state machine traces, building shared knowledge bases.
• Familiarity with networking products, Linux, and scripting in Python.
• Experience operating across HW/FW/SW boundaries.
• This is a chance to build and lead a new team with direct ownership of a critical technical surface across NVIDIA's networking portfolio. If that fits you - apply!

Additional Information

At NVIDIA, our work powers accelerated computing and modern AI - from scientific research to the generative AI applications reshaping our world. The PCIe physical layer is where firmware meets the silicon: link bring-up, signal integrity, and cross-generation behavior on real silicon and in real customer environments. NVIDIA is building a dedicated Physical Layer team within its PCIe Firmware organization, with ownership across the networking product portfolio - and we are looking for a hands-on first-line manager to lead it!

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