d-Matrix
Senior Staff Hardware Qualification Engineer
$175K–$265K
Santa Clara · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted May 6, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in hardware qualification or reliability, specifically with HPC, servers, or networking hardware.
- Education
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
About the job
Defines and leads hardware qualification and reliability testing for AI compute platforms, from ASIC substrates to rack-scale systems, to support reliable production and data-center operation.
What you'll do
- Define and execute EVT/DVT/PVT qualification plans and lead stress and reliability testing.
- Oversee signal, power, and interconnect validation; drive root-cause analysis of system failures.
- Coordinate hardware fixes and qualification methods with design, thermal, firmware, and manufacturing partners.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
- 12+ years in hardware qualification or reliability for HPC, servers, or networking hardware.
- Mastery of JEDEC, IPC, and Telcordia reliability standards.
- Expertise with high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, environmental chambers, and statistical methods including Weibull analysis, DOE, and JMP/Minitab.
Nice to have
- Experience qualifying air and liquid cooling components for high-TDP AI systems; ASIC/package-level reliability experience.
- Familiarity with Python or LabVIEW for test automation.
Pay
$175K – $265K (base salary)
Tools
JEDEC, IPC, Telcordia, JMP/Minitab, Python, LabVIEW, PCIe, LPDDR
AI focus
Qualifies hardware platforms for AI compute and inference systems; no AI model development is stated.
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