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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.\nNVIDIA 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!\nWhat you'll be doing:\nLead a focused team of physical layer firmware engineers as a player-coach - guiding debug directly while growing the team's engineers and tech leads.\n\nOwn the team's delivery for PCIe link bring-up, equalization, recovery, and physical-layer-related customer escalations across multiple products.\n\nPartner with Chip Design, Architecture, Software, Validation, and Customer Engineering to drive issues to root cause and turn point fixes into reusable improvements.\n\nAct as the technical reference on physical layer scope - both for triage and for cleanly identifying when an issue is not physical layer.\n\nChampion AI-native engineering inside the team and across the organization, applying AI tools to triage, debug, and knowledge capture.\n\nWhat we need to see:\nDegree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n\n8+ overall years of engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering management or equivalent tech lead experience on a path into management.\n\nStrong PCIe foundation: link training, equalization, recovery flows, and cross-generation behavior.\n\nA track record of personally driving hard link issues to root cause, working from state traces and eye diagrams alongside silicon and signal integrity engineers.\n\nProven ability to grow engineers, run a delivery cadence, and make prioritization calls under constraint.\n\nAn active operator: when execution is blocked, you step in.\n\nClear communicator across engineers, partners, and customers.\n\nWays to stand out of the crowd:\nHands-on PCIe link bring-up on real silicon, signal integrity work, lane margining, or cross-generation interop.\n\nDirect experience with high-speed SerDes behavior, thermal-sensitive link issues, or customer-facing escalation work.\n\nPractical use of AI/ML tools in engineering - pattern matching across logs, summarizing state machine traces, building shared knowledge bases.\n\nFamiliarity with networking products, Linux, and scripting in Python.\n\nExperience operating across HW/FW/SW boundaries.\n\nThis 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!\nNVIDIA 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. 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