Hardware Validation Engineer - Server & Cloud Infra (Hybrid)

The Briefed; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

In-office 3 days/week (San Mateo)

In-person collaboration at San MateoHQ

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo is seeking a Hardware Engineer on the Infrastructure Foundation Hardware Engineering team to design, develop, and validate next-generation server platforms powering Roblox’s data centers. The role emphasizes hardware bring-up, validation, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure.

You will lead platform integration, tuning, and stress-testing across CPU, memory, storage, and networking subsystems, with firmware qualification and vendor

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware engineering or server validation experience.
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Experience with Linux-based data center environments and hardware interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Hardware lifecycle bring-up, validation, deployment, and fleet support.
• Platform performance tuning and system-level debugging across large-scale compute.
• Develop tests, benchmarking, and stress-testing strategies for server platforms.
• Firmware qualification, automation, and firmware provisioning frameworks.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors and SRE/Ops to root cause complex failures.

Skills

Linux-based server environments

Remote debugging

Python, Go, or Bash scripting

Hardware interfaces (PCIe/NVMe/Ethera​

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

BIOS & BMC firmware qualification tooling

Kernel log analysis

Job description

Roblox in San Mateo is seeking a Hardware Engineer on the Infrastructure Foundation Hardware Engineering team to design, develop, and validate next-generation server platforms powering Roblox’s data centers. The role emphasizes hardware bring-up, validation, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure.

You will lead platform integration, tuning, and stress-testing across CPU, memory, storage, and networking subsystems, with firmware qualification and vendor