Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - NPI Bring-up SDET

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to drive validation readiness for PCIe Data Center GPU programs. You will develop test plans, build automation pipelines, and guide defect triage across CUDA, NVIDIA Driver, and platform teams.

You will bring 8+ years of software quality, expertise in Python, C/C++, CUDA, and Bash, and strong collaboration skills to ensure release readiness and robust regression coverage.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software quality, test automation, or validation.
• Experience solving Linux and Windows issues; scripting in Python, C, C++, CUDA, or Bash.
• Knowledge of QA methodologies, risk-based test planning, release readiness, CI/CD, API integrations, log analysis, and defect triage.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop CUDA Compute test plans and coordinate validation across PCIe GPUs and platforms.
• Build test applications and automation frameworks in Python, C, C++, CUDA, and Bash; create pipelines in GitLab or Jenkins.
• Convert failures and defects into reliable automated regression coverage; drive issue reproduction and triage.
• Differentiate product regressions from automation, infra, configuration, and intermittent issues.
• Apply AI assisted tools to analyze test runs and verify conclusions.

Skills

Test automation

Quality Assurance

Linux

Windows

CI/CD

Debugging

Python

C

C++

CUDA

Bash

GitLab

Jenkins

Education

BS or MS in Engineering/CS

Tools

CUDA

Python

C++

C

Bash

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to join the Compute CUDA Quality Assurance team and drive validation readiness for PCIe Data Center GPU programs. This role combines new silicon bring up, CUDA and NVIDIA Driver quality, automation development, test infrastructure, and AI assisted quality analysis. Join the team and help advance the next generation of NVIDIA Data Center GPUs! We lead test planning, execution readiness, defect triage, and automation from early platform bring up through key release stages. We collaborate across CUDA, NVIDIA Driver, GPU architecture, firmware, system platform, Quality Assurance, and program teams to translate feature requirements into measurable coverage, identify release risks, and drive issues to resolution.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop CUDA Compute test plans and coordinate validation across PCIe high‑performance computing GPUs, NVIDIA systems, OEM servers, GPU configurations, operating systems, driver modes, CUDA versions, and release stages.
• Build Python, C, C++, CUDA, and Bash test applications, automation frameworks, release configurations, and GitLab or Jenkins pipelines.
• Convert NPI failures, customer defects, root cause findings, and suitable manual tests into reliable automated regression coverage.
• Separate product regressions from automation, infrastructure, configuration, and intermittent issues.
• Drive defects with clear reproduction steps, affected configurations, intended and actual results, supporting evidence, release impact, fix verification, and adjacent regression coverage.
• Apply AI assisted tools to analyze test runs and validate conclusions against source logs and engineering decisions.

Requirements

• A BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years experience in software quality, test automation, or software development and validation.
• Experience solving Linux and Windows system issues; development using scripting and programming languages such as Python, C, C++, CUDA, or Bash; and debugging across hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and application layers.
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance methodology, risk based test planning, functional validation, regression strategy, release readiness, CI/CD, API integrations, log analysis, root cause isolation, and defect triage.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential for explaining release risk and clarifying ownership, dependencies, and blockers.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Experience with NVIDIA GPU hardware, CUDA, PCIe‑based GPUs built for data centers, server platforms, CUDA C or C++ parallel programming, multiple GPU validation, P2P, reliability, or stress testing.
• Experience with developing scalable validation infrastructure for labs, cloud environments, containers, virtualization, or configuration management.
• Practical use of AI assisted analytics for test planning, automation, failure analysis, or defect detection is also valued.

Salary and Benefits

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 270,250 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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