Senior HPC Systems Validation Engineer at Lambda
San Jose, CA
$255,000–$340,000
Jul 20, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on validating new server, storage, and networking hardware through the full new product introduction cycle and into production fleet operations. Day-to-day work involves designing and running functional, stress, and benchmark tests; managing firmware and software compatibility; triaging hardware failures; and qualifying components such as memory, SSDs, and NICs. It suits engineers with hands-on HPC or data center hardware validation experience who are comfortable working across vendor, engineering, and operations teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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The job posting explicitly states this role requires 4 days/week in the San Jose office; the caller has overridden this to remote=true and no metro has been set per caller instruction.
The salary range is mentioned as existing but no figures are disclosed in the posting, so no compensation values could be extracted.
SOC classification is a judgement call: this role is primarily hardware validation and reliability engineering (operating/evaluating physical infrastructure), which maps best to 15-1244. It is not primarily a software-development role (15-1252), though it does involve some automation tooling. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is a reasonable runner-up given the specialized hardware NPI focus.
The required skills list avoids generic concepts per instructions; 'hardware integration validation', 'system integration testing', 'performance benchmarking', and 'component qualification' are retained because they represent concrete, named engineering disciplines central to this role's gate criteria, not soft skills.
The 'Nice to Have' section explicitly labels 10+ years of experience and all items within it as optional; all skills from that section are marked preferred accordingly.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): firmware management, root cause analysis, NIC configuration.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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