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Senior Hardware System Validation Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys Design
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Santa Clara, CA$168k - $258.8kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Hardware System Validation Engineer to lead HW validation activities in the Datacenter Systems Engineering team at NVIDIA, collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams to ensure robust product validation, test coverage, and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Developing new and extending existing test strategies & executing to guarantee the highest level of quality from both functional and performance perspectives.
  • Designing and developing software that automates the verification of all Data Center Scale infrastructure components.
  • Validation of distributed Storage systems (e.g., Lustre) on AI/HPC Datacenter scale infrastructure
  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams including application teams, HW designers, networking team, FW, security etc. to debug any HW/SW product issues.
  • Debug, triage issues, perform root cause analysis, verify fixes, define new tests, and improve product test plans.
  • Analyzing and root-causing issues down to the code level, leading the defect fixing process, and bug life cycle management.

Qualifications

  • MSEE/MSCE or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of validation experience
  • Over 5 years of proven experience in Software Quality Engineering & Storage system verification desired including significant contributions to QA strategies and test documentation.
  • Proven expertise in Test Framework & automation scripts development, CI/CD experience using Python, SHELL, Ansible, Git & Jenkins, docker containers & Kubernetes.
  • Solid understanding of system-level debugging and analysis tools
  • Strong communication skills and ability to participate in cross-functional quality initiatives & Cross-collaboration with Dev & Product Management teams to understand specification
  • Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for action, quality and engineering excellence.
  • Experience in using AI coding assistants to improve coding efficiency and correctness

Skills

Required:Test strategy developmentAutomation tooling (Python)CI/CDStorage systems validation

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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