Sr. Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)
$134,500 - $201,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated software and firmware test suites to verify quality and compliance across server platforms at functional, integration, and system levels. The scope includes validating operating systems, workload models, power, and performance for server environments.
What you'll do
- Create software and firmware test plans addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage with respect to feature requirements.
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated software and firmware test suites for functional, integration, and system-level verification.
- Manually test customer installation and deployment experiences across mobile, compute, and automotive environments where appropriate.
- Support continuous integration and continuous deployment initiatives to enhance quality and release engineering processes.
- Implement customer use cases, workload analysis models, and workload creation while collaborating with cross-functional teams on bring-up, debug, and diagnostics.
- Ensure operating systems run efficiently while identifying opportunities for power and performance enhancements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 6+ years of software engineering experience (or Master's degree with 5+ years, or PhD with 4+ years).
- 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
Nice to have
- 5 years of experience in software/firmware validation, with demonstrated focus on data center servers.
- Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques.
- Experience with operating systems including Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, or Windows Server.
- Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms supporting bring-up and production software releases.
- Prior experience with software/firmware integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, and operating systems for x86, ARM64, or RISC-V 64-bit server platforms.
- Strong understanding of server firmware standards, open-source implementations, and specifications for ARM64-based servers.
Skills: Test Automation, Firmware Testing, Data Center Servers, BIOS/UEFI, BMC, Python
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-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
51 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$229k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (1010 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 1010 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 695 | 6269 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 52 d | 51 d (+1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: Test Automation, Firmware Testing, Data Center Servers, BIOS/UEFI, BMC, Python
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 286 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 54 open roles · median 68 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 29 d
- Graphcore · 49 open roles · median 105 d
- Intel Corporation · 46 open roles · median 15 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 94 d
How we counted: 1010 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 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.