Senior Firmware Engineer

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Firmware Engineer in Beijing, China. Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

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Develop low-level C firmware and provide customer support for PCIe network adapters and devices.

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We are hiring a Senior PCIe Firmware Engineer to join the Chip Design PCIe Firmware team, based in Beijing. You will be the team's first-line representative for our Chinese customers — keeping the highest standard of NVIDIA's quality, efficiently resolving customer issues, and implementing the features our customers need. You will work on the low-level C Firmware code layer for groundbreaking network adapters and the next generation of NVIDIA devices, backed by automation and testing environment.

What you'll be doing:

Customers support as the team's first-line representative — working alongside, or immediately behind, theApplication Engineering layer — reproduce, debug, root-cause, and resolve field issues on post-silicon(shipping) products, and provide timely, high-quality technical responses.
Turn customer feature requests into reality — design, implement, and verify firmware features for postsilicon products, in close coordination with the customer and the wider PCIe group.
Take part in the team's activities — feature implementation and verification, complex post-silicon debug,and release convergence toward official releases.
Collaborate across teams — PCIe firmware, software, architecture, and QA — as well as with local customer oriented application engineers.
Improve the automated process - Constantly improving our efficiency and integrity.

What we need to see:

B.Sc. or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science / Computer Engineering.
5+ years of experience in firmware design and development.
Strong low-level C and embedded fundamentals.
Strong debugging skills — the ability to drive complex post-silicon / embedded issues to root cause.
Customer-facing communication — fluent Mandarin and professional English.
Problem solver, independent and curious.
Strong social skills and self-learning ability.
Strong multi-disciplinary capabilities and the ability to work with a wide interface of people — chip design, firmware, software, architecture, QA

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Experience in a customer-facing engineering or support role, ideally with networking / data-center customers.
Knowledge in networking, Linux, and scripting languages (Python).
Familiarity with hardware verification concepts and tools (C++, Python, GIT, Jenkins automation, HW familiarity).
Experience in collaborating with software and architecture teams to define and implement firmware.
Experience with in-depth problem solving

How we rate this

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Senior Firmware Engineer is an open job at NVIDIA.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in China, Beijing.
The job was posted on August 5, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by NVIDIA. Apply on NVIDIA

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