System Validation Engineering Manager

cornelisnetworks; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Open Time Off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Cornelis Networks is seeking a System Validation Engineering Manager to build and lead the System Validation team and to define comprehensive validation strategies for current and next-generation networking products.

You will develop validation plans, drive automation, and establish scalable processes ensuring quality across hardware and software systems. The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a fast-growing, remote-friendly environment.

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 with defined processes and metrics.
• Strong understanding of software validation methodologies, test automation, CI/CD, and defect management.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing System Validation team.
• Develop validation plans and strategies based on functional requirements.
• Oversee validation activities across the lifecycle, from manual testing to automated regression suites.

Skills

System Validation Leadership

Test Automation

CI/CD

Cross-Functional Collaboration

AI-assisted Validation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Automation Frameworks

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.

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.