Lead Systems Software Test Engineer – CSP Engagements - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 11 October 2026 by the employer.
Validate ML software stacks from cluster to rack scale on GB200 and Vera Rubin platforms.
About the role
As a Lead Systems Software Test Engineer on the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Engagements team, you will lead ML software stack validation for datacenter platforms. The role covers cluster to rack scale full-stack validation and customer-facing engineering for products such as GB200 and Vera Rubin.
What you'll do
- Define test strategy and test validation plans for CSP integration milestones, partnering with hyperscalers to evaluate test methodologies, identify gaps, and provide recommendations. - Reproduce, characterize, and triage customer bugs within customer environments and replicate reported issues in the local lab. - Review internal test plans, evaluate test results, and publish release summary test reports for rack scale products during NPI phases. - Validate fixes, mitigations, and release updates against deployed CSP software modules and known-good partner configurations. - Run performance benchmarks for training and inference workloads, driving root-cause analysis with NVIDIA development teams. - Manage large datasets of testing output and develop tooling for data visualization, retrieval of debug data, and reporting.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of system software validation experience. - Experience in validation, QA, system test, diagnostics, platform bring-up, or release qualification for complex hardware-software systems. - Strong understanding of server platforms, firmware, drivers, OS integration, networking, and large-scale cluster environments. - Hands-on experience debugging issues across hardware, firmware, software, networking, and infrastructure layers. - Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, Linux environments, test automation, and CI/regression workflows.
Skills: test strategy, validation plans, server platforms, firmware, drivers, OS integration, Linux
This role has been open 119 days — well above the 62-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
698
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$209k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (698 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 131 | 698 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 997 | 6298 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 62 d (−19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $209k |
Skills observed across this category: test strategy, validation plans, server platforms, firmware, drivers, OS integration
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 174 open roles · median 79 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 136 open roles · median 43 d
- AMD · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 58 d
- Mobileye · 21 open roles · median 91 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 119 d
How we counted: 698 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.