Nvidia
Hardware Validation Procedures and Documentation Lead
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 3 days ago
LinuxElectrical EngineeringTest AutomationCommunicationCollaborationOrganizational Skills
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About the role
- NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years.
- It's a unique legacy of innovation that's fueled by great technology-and amazing people.
- Today, we're tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and maintenance of validation plans, detailed test procedures, and supporting documentation for L6, L10, and L11 products.
- Work with engineering owners to verify procedures through hands-on execution and pilot runs, ensuring they are accurate, repeatable, and ready for use by internal and partner teams.
- Provide technical guidance and training to internal engineers, JDM partners, and vendors to enable consistent execution of validation plans.
- Demonstrated experience developing validation plans, test procedures, troubleshooting guides, or other engineering documentation used by internal teams or external partners.
- Experience working across engineering disciplines and supporting JDMs, ODMs, OEMs, vendors, or other external technical partners.
- Experience using AI tools and agentic workflows to support validation planning, technical documentation, and issue investigation, with the ability to verify outputs for technical accuracy and reliability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to lead technical reviews, deliver training, and coordinate issue resolution.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage documentation dependencies, competing priorities, and changing product requirements.
- Willingness and ability to travel as needed (at least 20%) to support collaboration, training, and validation activities at NVIDIA and partner sites and work will involve meeting with teams in international time zones, requiring flexibility in meeting schedules.
- Ability to speak Mandarin to support technical collaboration with JDM partners and vendors.
Requirements
- Experience with Linux, diagnostic tools, scripting, and test automation to support repeatable validation and efficient troubleshooting.
Compensation
- 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 - 258,750 USD.
Benefits
- Doing what's never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world's best talent.
- Collaborate with NVIDIA hardware, software, firmware, system, and validation engineers to define test coverage, prerequisites, configurations, execution steps, and acceptance criteria.
Company info
- Ways to stand out from the crowd: Experience developing or executing validation plans across L6, L10, and L11 product levels.
- Experience in an applications engineering role creating technical procedures and enabling customers or partners to execute them successfully.
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