Sr. Hardware Sustaining-DVT Engineer

Tensordyne; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tensordyne in Sunnyvale, California is searching for a hardware validation engineer. This role involves design verification testing and sustaining support for cutting-edge hardware products designed for generative AI inference acceleration.

Your responsibilities will encompass driving hardware bring-up, creating test plans, and supporting compliance testing. Candidates should possess a B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering, with over 5 years of relevant experience, and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience.
• Experience in creating test setups and writing test reports.
• Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing.

Responsibilities

• Support hardware system validation and sustaining of products.
• Gather requirements for planning Hardware Validation.
• Perform board bring up and functional tests.
• Analyze failures and drive resolutions.

Skills

Hardware validation

Design Verification Testing (DVT)

Root cause analysis

Test plan creation

Oscilloscope usage

Education

B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Digital Multimeters (DMM)

Power Supplies

Job description

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be responsible for DVT (Design Verification Testing) and Sustaining for early-stage validation and bring-up of Tensordyne’s next-generation hardware products for generative AI inference acceleration. You will drive hardware bring-up for new designs, debug issues, and ensure all systems meet performance and reliability specifications. Responsibilities include creating and executing hardware test plans, validating functionality, identifying and root-causing failures, making design changes, managing part lifecycle, building and maintaining benchtop test environments, and supporting reliability and stress testing across Tensordyne’s hardware portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Support all aspects of hardware system validation and sustaining of Tensordyne’s board and system level products.
• Gather requirements and specifications from engineering, product and operations teams for planning Hardware Validation and creating Test Plans.
• Hands on responsibility for board bring up, programming, performing functional test and design verification and board characterization.
• Support Compliance testing activities.
• Drive hardware parts selection and vendor qualification processes in collaboration with manufacturing operations.
• Analyze failures and find root causes for issues and drive them to resolution.
• Make necessary design changes and drive ECO/MCO releases.
• Support Diagnostic and Manufacturing Test development activities.
• Develop scripts and tools to automate test procedures and data analysis.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer engineering.
• 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience on board and system level products.
• Experience in creating test setups, writing test plans and reports.
• Strong knowledge of oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, in-system programmers and analyzers.
• Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing and certification processes.
• Self-starter and highly motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Tensordyne is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.