Sr. Hardware Sustaining-DVT Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 13 May 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Responsible for Design Verification Testing (DVT) and sustaining for early-stage validation and bring-up of Tensordyne's hardware products for generative AI inference.
What you'll do
- Support all aspects of hardware system validation and sustaining for board- and system-level products. - Gather requirements and specifications from engineering, product, and operations teams to plan hardware validation and author test plans. - Execute hands-on board bring-up, programming, functional testing, design verification, and board characterization. - Support compliance testing, diagnostic testing, and manufacturing test development activities. - Analyze failures to determine root causes, resolve issues, implement necessary design changes, and drive ECO/MCO releases. - Drive hardware parts selection and vendor qualification while developing scripts and tools to automate test procedures and data analysis.
What you'll need
- B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering. - 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience on board and system level products. - Experience creating test setups, writing test plans, and generating test reports. - Strong knowledge of oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, in-system programmers, and analyzers. - Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing and certification processes.
Skills: hardware validation, board bring up, functional test, DVT, oscilloscopes, root cause
This role has been open 119 days — well above the 44-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
414
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Median days open
44 d
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Median salary
$166k
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| Metric | Tensordyne | All employers we track in this specialty (414 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 414 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 1 | 2256 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 119 d | 44 d (+75 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $166k |
Skills observed across this category: hardware validation, board bring up, functional test, DVT, oscilloscopes, root cause
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 48 d
- Qualcomm · 38 open roles · median 28 d
- Micron Technology · 37 open roles · median 44 d
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 23 d
- Microchip Technology · 22 open roles · median 73 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 126 d
How we counted: 414 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 62 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.