Manager, PCIe Firmware - Physical Layer

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! What you'll be doing: • 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! NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to making reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process, please contact us.