Data Center Power Test Architect - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking a Data Center Power Test Architect to lead test strategy and quality across datacenter software and firmware stacks for AI, HPC, and cloud-scale systems. The role focuses on test architecture, lab automation, and power validation from pre-silicon simulation to post-silicon deployment across NVIDIA platforms.
What you'll do
- Own and drive end-to-end test architecture and validation strategy for power features across platforms, from pre-silicon simulation and emulation to post-silicon bring-up and production readiness.
- Architect and implement scalable, modular test frameworks and automation harnesses supporting functional, integration, stress, regression, power, security, and performance testing across hundreds of systems.
- Define data center power quality metrics and KPIs, including code coverage, system uptime, bug escape rate, and validation completeness.
- Lead complex root-cause investigations spanning firmware, software, and hardware layers while developing debug methodologies and diagnosis tools.
- Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to integrate lab automation and continuous testing pipelines across nightly and pre-merge CI/CD workflows.
- Validate real-world customer configurations, production scenarios, and firmware release qualification criteria for deployment.
What you'll need
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of experience in data center power enablement related to software/firmware testing, focusing on telemetry and power efficiency across systems.
- Strong knowledge of system architecture, power shelf, baseboard management, hardware and software power features, industry power standards, system interfaces, and embedded controllers.
- Proven experience designing test frameworks and infrastructure in Python, C/C++, or similar languages.
- Expertise with platform standards for security, telemetry, and manageability (NIST, DMTF, OCP), alongside hands-on server platform, network, storage, and cluster configuration and debugging.
- Experience with platform telemetry, datacenter node lifecycle management including CPU/GPU workloads, Kubernetes, Envoy, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab and Jenkins following GitOps models.
- Experience with lab automation, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HW-in-the-loop) testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience with NVIDIA platforms such as DGX, HGX, and Grace Hopper systems.
- Exposure to security validation, compliance (e.g., FIPS, BMC security), or thermal/power validation.
- Prior experience as a test architect or technical lead for large-scale datacenter enablement or firmware validation programs.
- Contributions to open-source testing tools or frameworks with knowledge of cloud-scale validation, infrastructure automation, or virtualization.
- Experience using AI tools to create agents, design test plans, identify test gaps, automate workflows, and conduct failure analysis.
Skills: data center power, firmware stack, test architecture, lab automation, CI/CD
This role has been open 121 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1010
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (1010 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 290 | 1010 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 997 | 6298 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 50 d | 52 d (−2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: data center power, firmware stack, test architecture, lab automation, CI/CD
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 290 open roles · median 51 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 50 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 24 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 98 d
- Intel Corporation · 48 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 88 d
How we counted: 1010 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.