NVIDIA
Senior High-Speed IO Validation Engineer
$168K–$322K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of HSIO validation experience.
- Education
- BSEE or BSCE or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own end-to-end HSIO validation for NVIDIA products, from test planning and hardware bring-up through issue resolution and production release.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute HSIO validation plans, automation, coverage metrics, and production-release activities.
- Coordinate across engineering and partner teams to ensure specification compliance, performance, and production readiness.
- Bring up new hardware, debug system- and board-level issues, review board designs, and support manufacturing.
What they ask for
- Work on site in the hardware lab at HQ five days per week.
- BSEE or BSCE, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of HSIO validation experience.
- Knowledge of HSIO protocols and system-level operation; hands-on post-silicon validation, debug, and tuning experience with lab equipment.
Nice to have
- PCI Express physical-layer and LTSSM debugging experience; familiarity with data link and transaction layers.
- Signal integrity, SERDES validation, datacenter products, or x86/Arm server and GPU-accelerated computing experience.
Pay
168,000 USD - 258,750 USD base salary (Level 4); 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
PCIe, NVLink, PCI Express, Infiniband, Ethernet, Python, DSOs, BERT
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative