Nvidia OpenBMC Application Engineer 

United States, California 

15483024

What you'll be doing:

• Develop OpenBMC firmware and core features to support next-generation GPU server platforms.

• Contribute and upstream OpenBMC code, collaborating with the open-source community to drive feature requirements and influence project direction.

• Design and implement manageability and monitoring solutions for enterprise components such as CPU, GPU, DIMM, SSD, NIC, PSU, FPGA, and CPLD.

• Leverage industry standards (MCTP, Redfish, SPDM, PLDM, PMBus, NVMe, etc.) to build high-performance and secure BMC solutions.

• Writing Linux, C/C++ Device Drivers

• Configuring Yocto/bitbake

• Collaborate with customers and partners to facilitate, solve, and improve OpenBMC solutions while promoting the ecosystem.

• Provide technical guidance, training, and documentation to help customers and ecosystem partners adopt OpenBMC more effectively.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of relevant experience, with a proven background in large-scale projects and multi-functional teamwork.

• Strong expertise in BMC firmware development, including BMC-BIOS communication, thermal/power management, firmware update, device monitoring, and firmware security.

• Deep knowledge of Linux, including command-line usage, driver model, and Linux kernel internals.

• Board bring-up experience with device drivers (I2C/I3C, SPI, PCIe, SMBus, Mailbox, etc.) and device trees for U-Boot and Linux kernel.

• Proficiency in C/C++ with scripting skills in Python or Bash.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Active contributor to open-source projects (OpenBMC, Linux kernel, Open Compute, DMTF standards, etc.).

• Direct experience working with customers to enable and bring up OpenBMC or system firmware solutions.

• Passion for driving industry standards and ecosystem building, serving as a bridge between internal teams, customers, and the open-source community.