Jobs / United States / Nvidia Corporation
Senior Systems Software Engineer, Data Center Platform Enablement
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 US, CA, Santa Clara
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 roles701 certified filings for “Engineer Senior Systems Software” (Software Developers) in CA: $173k–$214k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (82%) — 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 fueled 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. Are you ready to change the next generation of computing? Join us at the forefront of technological advancement. NVIDIA data center systems have become core to NVIDIA's rapidly growing enterprise and cloud provider businesses. These platforms bring together the full power of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA NVLink, NVIDIA Networking, NVIDIA Data Center CPUs, and a fully optimized NVIDIA AI and HPC software stack. We are seeking an excellent Senior System Engineer to work on bring up, integration, validation and troubleshooting for compute tray platforms of GPU Racks — ensuring servers are fully functional and validated as per requirement before mass deployment in data centers. What you’ll be doing: • Working with a global team of architects and developers on NVIDIA AI server system (CPU, GPU, Memory, NIC, PCIe, NVMe SSD, Cooling, etc.) designs. • Working closely with hardware teams to influence hardware system design, reviewing schematics and board design to ensure speed of light execution. • Using simulation and emulation to left-shift early design and initiate new concepts and innovations. • Hands on debug and support of early server prototypes bring-up and power on test debug in datacenter system labs. • Factory and Manufacturing support: Support manufacturing flows, firmware updates, and diagnostic procedures. Ensure BOM change signoff and process optimization. • Issue Resolution & Customer Support: Drive root cause analysis and resolution of bring-up failures. Collaborate with partners, ODMs, and customers for technical support. • Working with design architects to come up with proper diagnostic test tools and automation for qualifying the early system software and firmware stack. What we need to see: • Strong experience of computer system and firmware architecture and design for server products. Experience with CPLD or FPGA design and RTL. • Solid experience of end-to-end delivery of high-end enterprise server products from definition to customer deployment. • Solid understanding of low-level interfaces between SBIOS, BMC and OS like I2C/SPI/PCIe/JTAG etc. System boot and initialization, PCIe enumeration, high speed I/O at platform level for enterprise systems. • Experience on working closely with HW teams, ODMs and vendors to introduce and support server platforms. Experience with C/C++ development, bash/python for scripting, and solid hands-on debugging skills in embedded Linux operating environments. • Experience on using simulation such as QEMU and emulation tools to perform validation of early design work. Experience with accelerating design and debug by using AI tools. • You should possess excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of teamwork, love to produce quality work and commitment to finish your tasks every single day. • You are a self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to exciting problems. • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent experience), and 8+ years of experience, with demonstrated strong ability as individual contributor. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Experience with early design and power on debug • Proven leader who is willing to tackle challenging issues and work in a