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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - NPI Bring-up SDET

NVIDIA· Engineer, SW QA Test Dev
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Santa Clara, CA$168k - $270.3kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior SDET focused on validation readiness for PCIe Data Center GPU programs, combining silicon bring-up, CUDA and NVIDIA Driver quality, automation, test infrastructure, and AI-assisted quality analysis within NVIDIA’s Compute CUDA Quality Assurance team.

Responsibilities

  • Develop CUDA Compute test plans and coordinate validation across PCIe high-performance computing GPUs, NVIDIA systems, OEM servers, GPU configurations, operating systems, driver modes, CUDA versions, and release stages.
  • Build Python, C, C++, CUDA, and Bash test applications, automation frameworks, release configurations, and GitLab or Jenkins pipelines. Convert NPI failures, customer defects, root cause findings, and suitable manual tests into reliable automated regression coverage.
  • Separate product regressions from automation, infrastructure, configuration, and intermittent issues. Drive defects with clear reproduction steps, affected configurations, intended and actual results, supporting evidence, release impact, fix verification, and adjacent regression coverage.
  • Apply AI assisted tools to analyze test runs and validate conclusions against source logs and engineering decisions.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years experience in software quality, test automation, or software development and validation.
  • Experience solving Linux and Windows system issues; development using scripting and programming languages such as Python, C, C++, CUDA, or Bash; and debugging across hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and application layers.
  • Knowledge of Quality Assurance methodology, risk based test planning, functional validation, regression strategy, release readiness, CI/CD, API integrations, log analysis, root cause isolation, and defect triage.
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills for explaining release risk and clarifying ownership, dependencies, and blockers.

Skills

Required:CUDAPythonC/C++
Nice to have:Bash

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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