Senior HPC Systems Validation Engineer

Lambda

Senior HPC Systems Validation Engineer ensuring hardware reliability for AI cloud infrastructure products. Collaborating across teams to validate and benchmark new hardware systems while supporting deployment readiness.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeSan Jose • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $255,000 - $340,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in hardware integration validation, performance benchmarking, and system integration testing for HPC and cloud infrastructure products. Proven ability to collaborate across engineering teams and manage vendor relationships to ensure reliable and production-ready hardware solutions.

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Hardware Integration ValidationPerformance BenchmarkingSystem Integration TestingRoot Cause AnalysisVendor Management

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Hard Skills

HPC AI/MLGeneral Purpose ComputeStorage SystemsNetwork SwitchesFirmware CompatibilityAutomated Testing ToolsComponent QualificationStress TestingError Injection TestingBenchmark Testing

Soft Skills

Strong OwnershipSelf-StarterCollaborationProblem SolvingAdaptability

Industry Keywords

Data CenterCloud InfrastructureNPI (New Product Introduction)Fleet Hardware Reliability EngineeringPerformance Validation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own system integration validation for new HPC AI/ML, general purpose compute, storage, and network hardware platforms throughout hardware NPI and deployment readiness.
Development and execution of functional, stress, reliability, error-injection and benchmark tests on new hardware systems. Enable automated tools for doing scale testing.
Collaborate with HPC deployment and operation teams, fleet engineering teams, infrastructure engineering and PMO teams to facilitate tooling automation and L10/L11/L12 level benchmarking throughout hardware NPI and at new hardware deployment.
Manage the firmware and software compatibility, track and recommend firmware and software releases during NPI, support HPC operation team on firmware and software maintenance after production release.
Support RMA team on critical hardware issues’ triage and Root-Cause-Analysis after deployment; own fleet hardware issues’ failure correlation, trend analysis, close the loop with Platform Hardware Engineer and Quality team to improve product reliability.
Own hands-on lab setup and test infrastructure for repeatable hardware evaluation, partnering with Platform Hardware Engineer, Data Center Engineering, and Cluster Network Design to ensure new platforms can be brought up, instrumented, stressed, benchmarked, and debugged consistently.
Manage hardware vendors regarding hardware validation and manufacturing testing; support new vendor evaluation and Quarterly Business Review on hardware vendors.
Drive alternate component qualification from technical evaluation through PLM enablement, develop and execute validation plans for key commodities such as memory, SSDs, NICs, PSUs, PDUs, fans, cables, optics, and transceivers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5 years of experience in one or many of the following areas: hardware integration validation, fleet hardware reliability engineering, component qualification, performance validation for HPC, data center, or cloud infrastructure products.
Possess deep knowledge in system integration testing and performance benchmarking at one or many of the L10, L11 and L12 levels.
Experiences in validation of one or many of the following server hardware platforms: AI/ML, general compute (x86 and ARM), storage systems, or network switches.
Hands-on experiences with vendor-led product NPI cycles and can drive hardware validation, issues triage, debugging and root cause in both NPI and after production at scale.
Collaborate well across architecture, hardware and datacenter engineering, supply chain, fleet and infrastructure engineering, HPC deployments and operations, and vendor engineering teams to deliver complete, production-ready hardware solutions.
Strong ownership and can do attitude; self-starter who feels comfortable working in ambiguity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use