Senior Validation Engineer

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a Validation Engineer to validate and qualify AI software, firmware, hardware, and system-level features for edge AI accelerator platforms. The role involves designing validation strategies, developing automation frameworks, executing functional and performance testing, and ensuring high-quality releases across embedded and AI workloads.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Linux systems, automation, AI/ML validation, CI/CD workflows, and debugging complex hardware-software interactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute validation plans for AI accelerator platforms, embedded systems, and SDK releases.
• Validate AI/ML workloads including LLMs, VLMs, vision, audio, and NLP models across different hardware targets.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Python, Bash, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform functional, regression, stress, performance, and scalability testing.
• Validate PCIe, USB, networking, memory, storage, and system-level interfaces.
• Debug issues across firmware, kernel drivers, runtime, and application layers.
• Work closely with software, compiler, runtime, hardware, and DevOps teams for issue triaging and release qualification.
• Build automated validation pipelines for nightly, release, and PR-based testing.
• Analyze logs, crashes, performance bottlenecks, and system stability issues.
• Create detailed validation reports, dashboards, and quality metrics.
• Support customer-specific validation and benchmarking activities.
• Manage and maintain lab infrastructure, devices, and automated execution environments.
• Validate deployments across x86, ARM, Linux, containerized, and cloud-based environments.
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