Nvidia Senior Network Validation Engineer 

United States, California 

727213030

What you’ll be doing:

• Design validation plans from bare metal to at scale data center integration tests.

• Debug, triage issues, perform root cause analysis, verify fixes, define new tests, and improve product test plans.

• Configure, administer, troubleshoot, and oversee the qualification of Ethernet and InfiniBand networks in large-scale datacenter environments.

• Perform server function & network validations including Ethernet & InfiniBand protocol & system level reliability test end to end application tests.

• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks and test automation suites, including automated reporting, while consistently increasing end-to-end automation coverage with each release cycle.

• Track and coordinate all validation activities from bring up to production release.

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams including application teams, HW designers, networking team, FW, security etc. to debug any HW/SW product issues.

• Provide inputs to architecture teams for next generation Data Center networking design.

What we need to see:

• M.S. degree in Engineering/Computer Science/related field (or equivalent experience).

• 10+ years of experience.

• Over 5 years of proven experience in Software Quality Engineering and Network Testing, including significant contributions to QA strategies and test documentation.

• Strong skills in Python (preferred) or other scripting languages like Perl, Shell and hands-on experience with Jenkins or similar CICD based pipelines

• Strong technical abilities, problem solving, designing, coding and debugging skills

• Extensive hands-on experience in configuring and troubleshooting data center networking, including Layer 2/Layer 3 protocols such as VLAN, BGP, EVPN, and spine-leaf topology & InfiniBand networks experience desired.

• Experience with using test tools from Ixia or Spirent and working experience in test management

• Hands on experience working on Unix or Linux based OS

• Great team player with multi-tasking ability and good interpersonal & documentation skills

• Solid foundation in and understanding of software engineering practices

• Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for action, quality and engineering excellence.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center).

• Demonstrated experience with RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technologies and related protocols such as InfiniBand or RoCE.

• Knowledge or experience of AI Data Center validation with GPU clusters.

• Experience in REST API & Kubernetes and background in network automation tools like Ansible, Jenkins & Robot framework.

• Experience in IPv6 & Telemetry at a Data Center scale with Observability tools like Grafana & Prometheus preferred