Platforms & Lab Operations engineer - USA-CA San Jose Innovation Drive, United States
$143,800 - $230,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 12 October 2026 by the employer.
Join the Core Switch Group team supporting SDK development and test labs.
About the role
This role involves managing the Core Switching Group’s development and test lab, ensuring it is reliable, organized, and ready for engineering and QA use. This position combines hands-on lab operations with Linux systems administration, test equipment support, security maintenance, and development of the Rack lab equipment management system.
What you'll do
- Manage lab equipment moves, additions, and changes; maintain cabling, connections, and servers.
- Administer several Linux systems used in SDK labs, performing routine maintenance, software updates, and PCIe firmware updates.
- Maintain and improve Rack, the lab equipment management system, contributing to automation with Python, Expect, and Rust programming.
- Perform OS and kernel updates on Broadcom SVK reference systems, including tools and kernel builds.
- Support and continuously improve new platform setup workflows, including system installation, RFS installation, and tar creation.
- Install and maintain Raspberry Pi LED test setups used across multiple systems.
What you'll need
- Hands-on experience managing an engineering or hardware test lab, including rack equipment, cabling, power, radiant and liquid cooling, and test setups.
- Practical Linux administration and troubleshooting experience, including services, operating system updates, and kernel builds.
- Familiarity with network test equipment such as Ixia, as well as hardware or PCIe firmware updates.
- Ability to document procedures, track maintenance work, and coordinate effectively with engineering, facilities, IT, and security teams.
- Hands-on Python, Expect, Rust programming, ssh, shell scripting, SNMP, REST.
Nice to have
- Experience with SQL, SNMPv3, BMC remote operations, VLAN partitioning, IP address management in large distributed labs, Jenkins, Nagios, access control, temperature and power management, DMTF Redfish.
Skills: Linux systems administration, lab operations, Python, shell scripting, network test equipment
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Broadcom | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 80 | 6149 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 50 d (−10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Linux systems administration, lab operations, Python, shell scripting, network test equipment
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.