#Systems SoC Test Engineer
$89,000 - $133,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 20 July 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 5 August 2026.
About the role
This role leads the validation and automation of ARM-based server hardware platforms, ensuring custom silicon meets uptime, thermal reliability, and performance targets. Testing focuses on custom CPU, memory, interconnects, power, and remote management interfaces using Linux and internal SDK tools.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, develop, and automate comprehensive test plans and test scenarios for CPU, memory, PCIe, power/thermal, and system uptime. - Direct integrated system tests across hardware, firmware, and OS, executing stress workloads, power cycling, and long-duration soak tests. - Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites and frameworks across UEFI, Linux/Unix OSs, BMC automation, and virtualized OS environments. - Perform diagnostics and failure analysis across hardware, kernel, and firmware boundaries, collaborating with HW and SW design engineers to isolate faults. - Analyze test results, track quality metrics including error rates, MTBF, uptime, and thermal readings, and build automated reporting dashboards. - Identify coverage improvements and develop new test tools to refine automation execution for hyperscale deployment scenarios.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice to have
- 2+ years of system testing or validation experience in enterprise/server hardware, or experience in a data center environment. - Understanding of computer architecture, ARM Architecture versions, SoC designs, PCI Express, DDR memory, Ethernet, NVMe, CXL, NUMA, and Arm System Ready. - Experience with Linux system administration, shell scripting, kernel log analysis, and kernel panic analysis. - Understanding of bootloaders, BIOS/UEFI, or firmware. - Programming and scripting experience with C, C++, Bash, Python, Git version control, code review, and CI pipelines. - Experience with test methodologies including unit, integration, stress, and regression testing, as well as benchmarks such as Stress-ng, Linpack, SPECint/SPECfp, or UEFI benchmarks. - Hands-on experience with debuggers, log analyzers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers for PCIe and networking.
This role has been open 90 days — well below the 111-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
197
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Median days open
111 d
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Median salary
$140k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (197 roles · 58 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 197 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 131 | 2227 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 113 d | 111 d (+2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $140k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 14 open roles · median 113 d
- Renesas Electronics · 13 open roles · median 101 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 11 open roles · median 112 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 134 d
- Infineon Technologies · 9 open roles · median 116 d
- Marvell Technology · 9 open roles · median 116 d
How we counted: 197 open Silicon Test Engineering (Silicon Validation) roles from 58 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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.