SWQA Tools Development Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$140,000 - $270,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a SWQA Tools Development Engineer on the Certification team, you will build automated and AI-driven solutions to improve productivity, tracking, and efficiency across software and hardware certification workflows. You will focus on testing and test automation for certification programs including HLK, HDMI/DP, ESXi, and Android CTS.
What you'll do
- Apply certification kits to test software and hardware features across stages from emulation to production, covering graphics, display, audio, multimedia, USB, hypervisors, and virtual machines. - Work with existing UI and automation tools by integrating internal and external APIs, and formulate and deploy multi-agent systems to optimize workflows. - Take ownership of multiple certification programs, leading certification engineers and collaborating with multi-functional teams and external certification authorities. - Engage with development teams when reporting certification bugs, providing key debugging information and data points to resolve issues. - Represent the team in internal meetings, including release planning and bug scrubs, as well as external meetings with certification partners.
What you'll need
- Engineering Graduate in Computer Science or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying AI/ML models or automation systems in real projects. - Experience with AI coding assistants or autonomous development agents such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot, including automatically identifying and filing bugs. - Full-stack development experience with Angular, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core Web API, IIS Web hosting, Python, C#, SQL, and version control tools like GitHub or Perforce. - Expertise in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD, managing automated validation, security checks, release management, and production deployment.
Skills: SWQA, CI/CD, automation, Python, C#, certification kits
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Software Engineering Semiconductor roles.
Software Engineering Semiconductor · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
346
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$148k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (346 roles · 60 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 346 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 992 | 6222 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 48 d | 51 d (−3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Skills observed across this category: SWQA, CI/CD, automation, Python, C#, certification kits
Who's hiring in this category
- Keysight Technologies · 37 open roles · median 32 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 28 open roles · median 209 d
- KLA Corporation · 28 open roles · median 148 d
- Applied Materials · 27 open roles · median 26 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 27 open roles · median 50 d
- Micron Technology · 26 open roles · median 50 d
How we counted: 346 open Software Engineering Semiconductor (Systems Software) roles from 60 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 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.