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Platform Software Validation Engineer - SDET

NVIDIA· Engineer, SW QA Test Dev
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Santa Clara, CA$140k - $224.3k + equityfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

NVIDIA platform SWQA SDET role focusing on validation and automation for HGX/DGX/MGX platform on servers, OS, firmware, and CUDA stack; strong Linux, CI/CD, DevOps, AI/NLP tooling, and test automation experience required.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the development and execution of NVIDIA HGX/DGX/MGX platform test plan on servers, OS, FW and CUDA SW stack from design doc.
  • Installing and testing various systems OS, server firmware and SW stack.
  • Drive support for root cause analysis on reliability and validation test failures to identify root cause(s) and achieve mitigation.
  • Build, develop/debug server and OS level automation front-end and back-end framework and tests
  • Review partner and supplier test results and prescribe additional reliability testing on components, servers, and packaging as needed.
  • Work in an agile software development team with very high production quality standards.
  • Manage bug lifecycle and collaborate with inter-groups to drive for solutions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in a STEM field
  • 5+ years proven experience; or master’s degree
  • Proven years of OS and server level automation, CI/CD process and DevOps experience using Python, SHELL, Ansible, Jenkins, C/C++, Java, JavaScript
  • Strong server and Linux troubleshooting and debugging experience in a bare-metal and KVM/VMWare/Hyper-V environment
  • Good knowledge and hands-on experience in model testing, AI tools/frameworks (TensorFlow, Pytorch, Cursor and etc…), NLP and LLM benchmarking
  • Experience in using AI development tools for test plans creation, test cases development and test cases automation
  • Strong experience in FW, BMC/OpenBMC, Network protocol, internal/external enterprise storage devices, PCIe buses and devices, IO sub-devices, CPU and memory, ACPI, UEFI spec, Redfish - huge plus
  • Proven years of experience in GitHub/Gitlab/Gerrit, PXE, SLURM, Stack/Kubernetes/Docker) – huge plus

Skills

Required:PythonShell scriptingC/C++DevOps / CI-CDLinux administrationAI tools / frameworksVM / virtualization platforms

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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