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Senior Hardware Validation Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys Design
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Santa Clara, CA$168k - $258.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Hardware Validation Engineer to lead validation activities in the Datacenter Systems Engineering team at NVIDIA, coordinating with validation engineers, board designers, silicon characterization, and AE teams to ensure product validation and test coverage from board bring-up to production release.

Responsibilities

  • Own validation coverage, technical risk, issue prioritization, and release-readiness recommendations from initial board bring-up through system integration and production release.
  • Independently debug complex electrical, functional, performance, and reliability issues. Define experiments, collect evidence, isolate root causes, verify corrective actions, and establish regression coverage.
  • Validate power delivery, tune system power-management control loops, and verify high- and low-speed interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBus, and USB.
  • Lead multi-functional investigations involving board bring up, silicon, firmware stack, thermal, mechanical, and manufacturing teams, driving issues to verified closure.
  • Review schematics and PCB layouts, provide actionable design feedback, and influence next-generation products based on validation findings.
  • Develop diagnostics, automation, and data-analysis tools that improve validation coverage, reproducibility, and root-cause efficiency.

Qualifications

  • BSEE/BSCE or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of validation experience
  • Strong understanding of digital design, circuit design and analysis, computer architecture and CPU/GPU architecture
  • Validation experience with board bringup, lab debug and lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers)
  • Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for action, quality and engineering excellence
  • Strong Linux experience, including command-line debugging, system log analysis, and developing diagnostic and test-automation tools using Python, Shell, Perl, or similar scripting languages
  • Experience with ARM CPU architecture and hardware validation.

Skills

Required:Digital designCircuit design and analysisComputer architectureLab hardware toolsLinuxScripting

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Jul 31, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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