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Hardware Validation Procedures and Documentation Lead

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

About the role

Lead development and maintenance of hardware validation plans, procedures, and documentation for high-level NVIDIA products; collaborate across hardware, software, firmware, and validation teams; provide training and act as primary contact for validation issues.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and maintenance of validation plans, detailed test procedures, and supporting documentation for L6, L10, and L11 products.
  • Collaborate with NVIDIA hardware, software, firmware, system, and validation engineers to define test coverage, prerequisites, configurations, execution steps, and acceptance criteria.
  • Translate engineering requirements and test methodologies into clear instructions covering equipment setup, tools, commands, expected results, data collection, and troubleshooting.
  • Work with engineering owners to verify procedures through hands-on execution and pilot runs, ensuring they are accurate, repeatable, and ready for use by internal and partner teams.
  • Provide technical guidance and training to internal engineers, JDM partners, and vendors to enable consistent execution of validation plans.
  • Serve as a primary contact for questions and issues encountered during validation, clarifying procedures, supporting initial troubleshooting, and engaging the appropriate engineering owners.
  • Establish documentation templates, review and approval processes, revision control, and traceability between validation requirements, procedures, and results.
  • Keep documentation aligned with product revisions, hardware configurations, software and firmware releases, and changes to validation requirements.
  • Incorporate execution feedback and lessons learned into procedures to improve usability, reduce ambiguity, and increase validation efficiency.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in hardware or system validation, applications engineering, product engineering, or a related engineering role.
  • Demonstrated experience developing validation plans, test procedures, troubleshooting guides, or other engineering documentation used by internal teams or external partners.
  • Strong understanding of hardware and system validation, including test coverage, configuration management, pass/fail criteria, failure isolation, and validation evidence.
  • Ability to translate complex technical information into precise, practical instructions for engineers with different levels of product familiarity.
  • Hands-on experience executing validation procedures and troubleshooting hardware, software, and firmware interactions.
  • Experience working across engineering disciplines and supporting JDMs, ODMs, OEMs, vendors, or other external technical partners.
  • Experience using AI tools and agentic workflows to support validation planning, technical documentation, and issue investigation, with the ability to verify outputs for technical accuracy and reliability.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to lead technical reviews, deliver training, and coordinate issue resolution.
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage documentation dependencies, competing priorities, and changing product requirements.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as needed (at least 20%) to support collaboration, training, and validation activities at NVIDIA and partner sites and work with teams across international time zones.

Skills

Required:Validation plan developmentTechnical writing and documentationCross-disciplinary collaborationTroubleshooting hardware/software/firmware
Nice to have:AI tools for validation

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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