Lead Production Test Architect, Networking Systems

Salesonaut

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 232,000 - 368,000

Full time

13 days ago

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA's Test Design Engineering (TDE) group in Santa Clara designs, develops, validates, and deploys production test solutions for networking products, coordinating with engineering and operations to shape test strategies and align roadmaps.

The role requires 15+ years in product engineering with leadership in production operations, hands-on software and test development, and experience with CM/JDM/ODM partners to ensure robust test capabilities across complex hardware.

Qualifications

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Information Systems (or equivalent).
15+ years of experience in product engineering, including technical leadership in production operations for PCs, servers, or networking devices.
Hands-on experience developing software and production test solutions.
Experience defining test strategies balancing coverage, reliability, test time, and manufacturing requirements.
Background with working directly with contract manufacturers (CMs), joint design manufacturers (JDMs), and original design manufacturers (ODMs).
Experience defining statements of work (SOWs), developing test plans, and coordinating test release deployment at manufacturing sites.
Experience guiding technical decisions and coordinating delivery across engineering and operations teams.
Ability to explain technical tradeoffs, build agreement across teams, and support collaboration across locations and time zones.

Responsibilities

Partner with Santa Clara test engineering teams to develop production tests for platforms that combine networking ASICs, MCUs, and other components.
Guide test architecture, coverage, and failure diagnosis for complex hardware platforms, drawing on your experience developing and deploying production tests.
Work with security teams to incorporate security requirements into test methods and workflows.
Coordinate technical decisions, priorities, and dependencies across teams so TDE's roadmap stays aligned with GPU engineering and platform development.
Collaborate with CPU and GPU test diagnostics teams to reuse software, components, and test flows, with a focus on shared capabilities across L10 and L11 system test levels.
Participate in new platform projects from the planning stage, bringing TDE's requirements and expertise into design and test decisions.
Help teams evaluate and adapt existing test capabilities to reduce duplicate development and shorten production timelines.
Represent TDE in technical discussions, planning sessions, and reviews. Connect colleagues with the information and support they need to resolve issues.