Senior Memory Subsystem Firmware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own DRAM firmware across its lifecycle - architecture, implementation, silicon bring-up, and production tuning.
• Design and implement DRAM initialization and training sequences: training protocols, calibration algorithms, and their firmware implementation.
• Characterize and tune the DRAM interface across PVT (process / voltage / temperature) variation to hold margins across corners.
• Drive the memory bring-up and validation strategy; root-cause complex hardware/software interactions in the lab and in pre-silicon.
• Set firmware quality bar - code review, profiling, and coverage - and mentor early-career engineers on the team.
• Refining our Interface bring up and validation strategy.
• What we need to see:
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of relevant DRAM / memory firmware development for high speed LPDDR or system DDR memories.
• Strong command of DRAM initialization and training - protocols, calibration algorithms, and their implementation in firmware.
• Deep understanding of DRAM interfaces and how PVT (process / voltage / temperature) variation affects timing, training, and margining.
• Proficiency in C/C++, with a solid grasp of data structures, compilers, and build and version-control tooling.
• Excellent debugging skills; able to decompose hard, ambiguous failures from first principles.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd:
• Breadth across DDR / LPDDR / HBM and multiple DRAM vendors.
• Signal-integrity intuition and comfort working with analog/mixed-signal behavior.
• Understanding of ASIC boot architecture.
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• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .
• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 30, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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Additional Information

NVIDIA's SoC Memory Subsystem team is looking for a strong, senior DRAM firmware engineer to own memory firmware from architecture through production silicon. You'll lead in areas of DRAM initialization and training across DDR/LPDDR, drive interface tuning across process, voltage, and temperature corners, and set the direction for how we take new memory interfaces from pre-silicon to production.

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