You're a seasoned Senior Hardware Validation Engineer with at least 5 years of experience, holding a BSEE or BSCE degree (or equivalent), and possessing a stron
Work type: onsite
Location: US, CA, Santa Clara
Salary: $168,000 – $258,750/yr
Type: Full-time
You're a seasoned Senior Hardware Validation Engineer with at least 5 years of experience, holding a BSEE or BSCE degree (or equivalent), and possessing a strong grasp of digital and circuit design, computer architecture, and CPU/GPU architecture. You are comfortable in a lab setting with excellent debug and problem-solving skills, and you have experience with ARM CPU architecture. **What makes it worth a look...** This full-time, on-site Senior Hardware Validation Engineer role at NVIDIA offers a competitive base salary range of $168,000 to $258,750 USD, plus eligibility for equity and comprehensive benefits. You'll be instrumental in validating groundbreaking compute platforms. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have 5+ years of validation experience, including board bringup and lab debug with tools like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. * Possess programming skills in Python or other scripting languages (Perl, Shell). * Have experience with ARM CPU architecture and hardware validation. * Are adept at electrical, functional, and stress testing of interfaces like PCIe and USB.
Our technology has no boundaries! NVIDIA is building the world’s most groundbreaking and state of the art compute platforms for the world to use. It’s because of our work that scientists, researchers and engineers can advance their ideas. At its core, our visual computing technology not only enables an amazing computing experience, but it is also energy efficient! We pioneered a supercharged form of computing loved by the most demanding computer users in the world - scientists, designers, artists, and gamers. It’s not just technology though! It is our people, some of the brightest in the world, and our diverse company culture make NVIDIA one of the most fun, innovative and dynamic places to work in the world! At the center of NVIDIA's culture are our core values like innovation, excellence and determination and team, that guide us to be the best we can be.
We are looking for a Senior Hardware Validation Engineer to lead validation activities in the Datacenter Systems Engineering team. You'll work closely with validation engineers, board designers, silicon characterization, and AE teams to ensure product validation and test coverage are optimal. The ideal candidate is self motivated, works well with different teams, very comfortable in a lab environment and demonstrates passion towards product level validation. They should have strong debug/circuit analysis fundamentals as well as automation and scripting experience. They must be capable of thriving in fast paced environment with evolving product definitions.
What you’ll be doing:
You will also be eligible for equity and [benefits](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/).
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 18, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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