System Validation Engineering Manager

Cornelis Networks Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Cash incentives

Health benefits

Pension/Retirement plan

Open Time Off

Job summary

Cornelis Networks is seeking a System Validation Engineering Manager to lead the System Validation team and define comprehensive validation strategies for next-generation networking products. You will drive validation plans, automation, and scalable processes across hardware and software.

In this leadership role you will balance engineering priorities, customer expectations, and delivery timelines while building a high-performing team focused on quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams responsible for validation of complex networking or distributed systems.
• Proven track record building and scaling a system validation organization with processes and metrics.
• Strong understanding of software validation methodologies and defect management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across engineering orgs and with leadership.
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies to improve validation engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing System Validation team.
• Develop software validation plans and strategies based on functional requirements.
• Define and oversee validation activities across the software development lifecycle, from manual testing to automated regression suites.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and validation infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain CI systems, monitor results, and triage validation failures.
• Troubleshoot issues across system, network, hardware, and software layers.
• Establish validation processes, metrics, dashboards, and reporting for quality.
• Document validation plans, test procedures, and release readiness.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, software, and product engineering to resolve defects.
• Drive continuous improvements in validation methodologies and tooling.
• Support product qualification for customer deployments and releases.

Skills

Team Leadership

System Validation

Validation Automation

CI/CD

Test Automation

AI-assisted Validation

Hardware/Software Integration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cornelis Networks delivers the world’s highest performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters. Our differentiated architecture seamlessly integrates hardware, software and system level technologies to maximize the efficiency of GPU, CPU and accelerator-based compute clusters at any scale. Our solutions drive breakthroughs in AI & HPC workloads, empowering our customers to push the boundaries of innovation. Backed by top-tier venture capital and strategic investors, we are committed to innovation, performance and scalability - solving the world’s most demanding computational challenges with our next-generation networking solutions.

We are a fast-growing, forward-thinking team of architects, engineers, and business professionals with a proven track record of building successful products and companies. As a global organization, our team spans multiple U.S. states and six countries, and we continue to expand with exceptional talent in onsite, hybrid, and fully remote roles.

As a System Validation Engineering Manager at Cornelis Networks, you will build and lead our System Validation team while collaborating with engineering leaders across the organization to define and execute comprehensive validation strategies for our current and next-generation networking products. You will be responsible for developing validation plans, driving automation, establishing scalable processes, and ensuring the quality and reliability of complex hardware and software systems.

In this leadership role, you will balance engineering priorities, customer expectations, and product delivery timelines while fostering a high-performing validation organization focused on quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing System Validation team.
• Develop software validation plans and strategies based on functional requirements.
• Define and oversee validation activities throughout the software development lifecycle, from manual exploratory testing to fully automated regression test suites.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and validation infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain continuous integration (CI) systems, monitor test results, and drive timely triage of validation failures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across system, network, hardware, and software layers.
• Establish validation processes, metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure product quality and team effectiveness.
• Ensure thorough documentation of validation plans, test procedures, execution results, and release readiness.
• Partner closely with hardware, firmware, software, and product engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and resolve defects.
• Drive continuous improvements in validation methodologies, automation, tooling, and best practices.
• Support product qualification efforts to ensure successful customer deployments and product releases.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams responsible for validation and qualification of complex networking, distributed systems, or comparable hardware and software platforms.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling a system validation organization, including defining processes, automation strategies, tooling, and quality metrics.
• Strong understanding of software validation methodologies, test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and defect management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering organizations and present status, risks, and metrics to executive leadership.
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies to improve validation engineering through AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and data-driven analytics.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior networking experience (e.g., Omni-Path, InfiniBand, Ethernet).
• Prior Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Familiarity with testing of distributed systems and routing/switching concepts.
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary engineering environment.

Location: This is a remote position for employees residing within the United States.

We offer a competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives, along with health and retirement benefits. Our dynamic, flexible work environment provides the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most influential names in the semiconductor industry.

At Cornelis Networks your base salary is only one component of your comprehensive total rewards package. Your base pay will be determined by factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and location relative to the hiring range for the position. Depending on your role, you may also be eligible for performance-based incentives, including an annual bonus or sales incentives.

Benefits & Compensation

• We offer a competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives, along with health and retirement benefits.
• In addition to your base pay, you’ll have access to a broad range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as disability and life insurance, a dependent care flexible spending account, accidental injury insurance, and pet insurance.
• We also offer generous paid holidays, 401(k) with company match, and Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees.
• Other paid time off benefits include sick time, bonding leave, and pregnancy disability leave.

Cornelis Networks does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. Cornelis Networks is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.