NVIDIA
Senior Hardware Validation Engineer
$168K–$259K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of validation experience.
- Education
- BSEE/BSCE or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads hardware validation for datacenter systems, from board bring-up through production release, ensuring coverage, resolving issues, and advising on design improvements.
What you'll do
- Own validation coverage, risk prioritization, and release-readiness recommendations; debug issues and establish regression coverage.
- Validate power delivery and interfaces, and lead cross-functional investigations through verified closure.
- Review schematics and PCB layouts, and develop diagnostics, automation, and data-analysis tools.
What they ask for
- BSEE/BSCE or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of validation experience.
- Strong knowledge of digital and circuit design, computer and CPU/GPU architecture; experience with ARM CPU architecture and hardware validation.
- Board bring-up and lab-debug experience using lab tools; strong Linux experience and scripting for diagnostic and test-automation tools.
Nice to have
- Validation or root-cause experience with GPU, CPU, SoC, or accelerated-computing platforms, and knowledge of power electronics or control systems.
- Experience with datacenter hardware deployment or rack-level systems, or leading complex cross-functional investigations.
Pay
168,000 USD - 258,750 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Python, Shell, Perl, PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBus
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