Test Design Engineer

Define and own the overall test strategy and coverage map across silicon, firmware, board, server, and rack levels, from EVT/DVT/PVT validation through production.

Design the test systems and frameworks that carry out that strategy: how tests are structured, versioned, gated, and run across the lab and the factory.

Review test plans from domain teams at each build phase, find coverage gaps and unnecessary duplication, and balance coverage against test time.

Build regression gating so changes to firmware, drivers, and test packages are validated on representative hardware before they ship.

Define pass/fail criteria, retest policies, and diagnostics, and work with Production to turn them into clear procedures.

Lead technical triage of failures that cross hardware, firmware, and software: read logs, reproduce issues, isolate root cause, and drive corrective actions with domain engineers.

Turn repeated failures into better tests, upstream screening, and diagnostics.

Partner with Test Infrastructure and our manufacturing partners to bring the strategy into production, including travel to Taiwan.

You have owned the test strategy or test systems for at least one hardware product from bring-up into production.

Hands-on experience across levels of test: low-level firmware, board-level, and system-level testing.

Experience designing regression gating or CI for hardware and firmware.

Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and software, working from logs and lab tools.

Clear communication across teams, and comfort making coverage and risk tradeoffs explicit.

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Willingness to work onsite in San Jose and travel internationally to manufacturing partners.

8+ years in test engineering, test architecture, system validation, or test automation for hardware products.

Server, rack, GPU, or accelerator systems, including post-silicon bring-up and rack-level (L10/L11) integration testing.

BMC, BIOS, PCIe, high-speed interconnects, power and thermal validation.

Hardware-in-the-loop test systems.

Factory test, test stations, or working with contract manufacturers and ODMs.

Yield analysis and data-driven test optimization.

Bringing first-generation hardware into production at a fast-paced startup.