Lead Systems Software Test Engineer – CSP Engagements

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 287,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is looking for a Lead Systems Software Test Engineer for its CSP Engagements team in Santa Clara, California. This role demands deep technical expertise in validating the ML software stack for data center products. You will engage with cloud service providers to ensure high-performance training and inference platforms, working at the intersection of hardware and software.

Ideal candidates should have over 8 years of experience in system software validation, strong Python skills, and a solid understanding of server platforms and large-scale environments. A competitive salary between $184,000 and $356,500 based on level and experience will be offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of system software validation experience.
• Proficient in test automation and infrastructure design.
• Ability to analyze logs and diagnostic outputs.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategy and validation plans for CSP integration.
• Reproduce and triage customer bugs in their environment.
• Manage large datasets of testing output.

Skills

Validation and QA expertise

System test and diagnostics

Debugging across hardware and software

Experience with Linux and shell scripting

Proficient in Python

Cross-functional communication

Education

BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

## Lead Systems Software Test Engineer – CSP EngagementsApplylocations: US, CA, Santa Claratime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR2020107NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Systems Software test (lead) Engineer to join our Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Engagements team, focusing on ML software stack validation for Datacenter products such as GB200 and Vera Rubin. This role combines deep technical expertise from cluster to rack scale full-stack validation with customer-facing responsibilities, enabling cloud service providers with next-generation high-performance training and inference platforms. You will work at the intersection of hardware and software, validating stable and performant technical solutions from concept through deployment.**What you will be doing:*** Define test strategy and test validation plans for CSP integration milestones, partner with hyper scalars to understand their test methodology, identify gaps and provide NVIDIA recommendations.* Reproduce, characterize, and triage customer bugs in the customer environment. Review internal test plans, test results, and publish summary test report for each release for the rack scale product during NPI phases.* Validate fixes, mitigations, and release updates against deployed CSP software modules and known-good partner configurations.* Partner with NVIDIA development teams to drive root-cause analysis and confirm release readiness with clear pass/fail evidence* Collaborate with CSP teams on provisioning, access, break-fix workflows, and environment readiness. Produce concise release-readiness summaries for internal stakeholders and partner-facing engineering reviews.* Manage large datasets of testing output and develop tooling for efficient retrieval of debug data, visualization, and reporting experience with tools.* Work with customers to localize problems using targeted reproduction steps by enabling stress and edge-case testing to assist development teams.* Running perf benchmarks for both training and inference. Collaborate with AE, FAE, and Solution Architect teams on validation for customer issues and technical documentation. Replicate the reported problems in the local lab**What we need to see:*** Experience in validation, QA, system test, diagnostics, platform bring-up, or release qualification for complex hardware-software systems.* Strong understanding of server platforms, firmware, drivers, OS integration, networking, and large-scale cluster environments.* Hands-on experience debugging issues across hardware, firmware, software, networking, and infrastructure layers.* Ability to analyze logs, telemetry, diagnostic outputs, automation failures, and system health signals.* Familiarity with Linux environments, shell scripting, Python or similar automation, and CI/regression workflows. Experience creating test plans, regression suites, validation reports, and defect documentation.* Strong cross-functional communication skills with QA, development, field, support, and customer engineering teams.* Proficient in Python with strong background in test automation and test infrastructure design. Able to communicate effectively and collaborate with partner and customer teams.* BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).* 8+ years of system software validation experience.**Ways to stand out from the crowd:*** Hands-on experience in cloud and cluster-level deployment and ML Ops.* Experience in running deep learning workloads and related automationNVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative, hardworking and self-motivated, we want to hear from you!Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 29, 2026.