R&D Compute Lead — Hardware Validation & Automation

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a senior technical leader to direct hardware qualification efforts, setting standards for first silicon, new platforms, and unexplained failures. You will build automation, test harnesses, and data pipelines to scale lab throughput, while mentoring engineers across debugging tasks.

You will represent the lab to vendors, communicating what is ready and what is not, ensuring rigorous hardware validation and rapid problem-solving in an accelerator-focused environment.

Qualifications

• You've been the senior technical voice in hardware validation or systems engineering.
• You've qualified early hardware, engineering samples or first-run systems, and shipped the findings.
• You've built test automation others still use.
• Your failure analyses go to root cause, not to plausible.
• You mentor engineers up the debugging stack.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for compute qualification: methods, tooling, and the standards the lab holds hardware to.
• Own the hardest qualifications yourself: first silicon, new platforms, and the failures nobody can explain.
• Build the automation: test harnesses and data pipelines that multiply the lab's throughput.
• Represent Labs to vendors and the fleet: the technical voice on what's ready and what isn't.

Skills

Senior hardware voice

Systems engineering

Hardware validation

Test automation

Root cause analysis

Mentor engineers

Accelerator architecture

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Vendor relationships

Job description

Fluidstack seeks a senior technical leader to direct hardware qualification efforts, setting standards for first silicon, new platforms, and unexplained failures. You will build automation, test harnesses, and data pipelines to scale lab throughput, while mentoring engineers across debugging tasks.

You will represent the lab to vendors, communicating what is ready and what is not, ensuring rigorous hardware validation and rapid problem-solving in an accelerator-focused environment.