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Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Center Firmware
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Data Center Engineering And Operations” (Data Scientists) in MI: $200k–$200k, median $200k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Nvidia Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
NVIDIA's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning - the next era of computing - with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as "the AI computing company." We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. We are looking for an excellent Senior Engineering Manager to lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering end-to-end manageability firmware for NVIDIA's next generation Data Center Compute Systems. This role owns HGX product line and OpenBMC-based management firmware and MCU firmware components in data center platforms, including architecture, execution, quality, reliability, telemetry, and customer readiness. We are seeking an experienced senior leader with strong technical depth, broad system perspective, and a proven ability to lead large teams through complex product cycles. This role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA, USA. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! What you'll be doing: • Lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering OpenBMC based firmware and MCU firmware for next-generation Data Center Compute Systems. • Own HGX platform as a lead for Firmware and System software readiness working across the organization. • Define and drive the long-term firmware roadmap, balancing architectural innovation with product execution and delivery milestones. • Drive architecture strategy across BMC, MCU, platform software, manageability, health management, and data center firmware interfaces. • Lead execution across multiple programs, coordinating priorities, hiring, managing cross component dependencies, and delivery commitments across a large engineering team. • Collaborate with data center architects, cloud customers, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope implementation, and deliver at Speed of Light. • Partner with hardware, systems, security, validation, manufacturing, field, and customer engineering teams to ensure scalable manageability architecture across data center products. • Manage customer and executive escalations for complex firmware, platform, and deployment issues. • Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization with strong technical leadership, execution discipline, and quality culture. What we need to see: • BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education or equivalent experience. • 12+ overall years of proven experience in server firmware, BMC/OpenBMC, MCU firmware, platform software, or data center systems. • 6+ years of experience managing software/firmware engineering teams. • Strong technical leadership in data center system architecture, server manageability, telemetry, health management, and reliability at scale. • Proven record delivering production firmware for large data centers with strong quality, debug, and operational discipline. • Experience leading architecture and execution across multiple programs, cross-functional teams, and customer-facing deliverables. • Strong understanding of firmware development lifecycle, validation, release management, issue triage, and production support. • Excellent communication skills, strong work ethic, sound judgment, and the ability to align teams through complex technical and business tradeoffs. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations, including multi-team execution and senior technical leaders. • High level of ownership to deliver products working ac