Senior System Validation & Debug Lead

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead system validation, debug, and cross-functional alignment on a flagship silicon program. You will own end-to-end validation across GPU, SoC, and platform programs, drive root-cause analysis with scalable fixes, and design AI-enabled validation workflows with guardrails.

Collaborate with global teams across silicon design, firmware, software, manufacturing, and platform engineering to reduce cycle time and ensure milestone delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of post-silicon validation, system integration, or platform debugging on shipped GPU, CPU, or SoC.
• Hands-on debugging across silicon, board, and software boundaries with EE fundamentals.
• Proven ability to lead multi-team root-cause analysis and deliver productized fixes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end system validation of NVIDIA GPU, SoC, and platform programs — feature checks, PVT stress, system-stress campaigns at scale, and multi-unit fleet testing.
• Lead debug of the hardest cross-stack issues — logic, signal integrity, power delivery, firmware, and software interaction — and drive them to root cause with reusable workarounds and productized fixes.
• Develop test plans, scripts, and automation for next-generation chips ahead of physical builds, translating architecture, boot flows, high-speed I/O, and power and thermal dependencies into executable coverage.
• Design and deploy AI-enabled debug and validation workflows used by the team — with explicit guardrails and measurable impact on cycle time, debug velocity, or escape rate.
• Translate complex silicon and system risk into decision-ready options for technical and executive audiences — without padding or hand-waving.
• Partner with globally distributed teams across silicon design, DFT, firmware, software, manufacturing, and platform engineering.
• Lead crisis-mode debug task forces when a program is stuck, and convert the learnings into reusable methodology for adjacent programs.

Skills

System validation

Debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-driven validation workflow

Education

BTech/BE in Electronics, Electrical, or Computer Engineering

MTech/ME in Electronics, Electrical, or Computer Engineering

Tools

Python

Linux

Automation scripting

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead system validation, debug, and cross-functional alignment on a flagship silicon program. You will own end-to-end validation across GPU, SoC, and platform programs, drive root-cause analysis with scalable fixes, and design AI-enabled validation workflows with guardrails.

Collaborate with global teams across silicon design, firmware, software, manufacturing, and platform engineering to reduce cycle time and ensure milestone delivery.