Digital Design & SoC Architecture
$117,800 - $176,600 USD yearly
Originally posted September 11, 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role drives system-level bring-up, debug, validation, and failure analysis of accelerator cards, servers, and rack-scale platforms. The focus includes identifying, triaging, and resolving hardware and software issues while developing test processes and operational infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Drive end-to-end debug activities, including issue triage, root cause analysis, and communication with stakeholders.
- Investigate hardware, firmware, and software failures encountered during card, server, rack, and test fixture bring-up.
- Gather, analyze, and correlate failure data to identify trends, isolate root causes, and drive corrective actions.
- Develop, integrate, and document hardware and software bring-up, validation, and debug processes.
- Design and enhance test automation infrastructure to improve debug efficiency, validation coverage, and test stability.
- Execute validation plans and debug methodologies for accelerator cards, server platforms, Ethernet, PCIe, and high-speed I/O interfaces.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience (or Master's degree and 1+ year, or PhD).
- Proven experience debugging and validating enterprise-class hardware, firmware, and software systems.
- Strong understanding of server architectures, AI accelerators or GPU cards, PCIe, networking, and system integration.
- Hands-on experience with failure analysis methodologies and root cause investigation.
- Proficiency using hardware debug equipment, including oscilloscopes, JTAG tools, and other diagnostic instrumentation.
- Familiarity with Linux-based automation environments and scripting, alongside hands-on lab bring-up experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with server manufacturing test, failure analysis, or system qualification.
- Experience developing debug and test automation tools using Python or similar scripting languages.
- Strong analytical skills with experience processing and interpreting large sets of hardware validation or manufacturing test data.
- Experience debugging PCIe, Ethernet, memory, power, or signal integrity issues using protocol or logic analyzers.
- Experience supporting rack-scale AI, HPC, or data center platforms.
- Experience supporting DevOps and IT infrastructure activities in engineering lab and test environments.
Skills: server platforms, bring-up, PCIe, root cause analysis, oscilloscope
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