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This role combines new silicon bring up, CUDA and NVIDIA Driver quality, automation development, test infrastructure, and AI assisted quality analysis. Join the team and help advance the next generation of NVIDIA Data Center GPUs!\nWe lead test planning, execution readiness, defect triage, and automation from early platform bring up through key release stages. We collaborate across CUDA, NVIDIA Driver, GPU architecture, firmware, system platform, Quality Assurance, and program teams to translate feature requirements into measurable coverage, identify release risks, and drive issues to resolution.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nDevelop CUDA Compute test plans and coordinate validation across PCIe high-performance computing GPUs, NVIDIA systems, OEM servers, GPU configurations, operating systems, driver modes, CUDA versions, and release stages.\n\nBuild Python, C, C++, CUDA, and Bash test applications, automation frameworks, release configurations, and GitLab or Jenkins pipelines. 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Drive defects with clear reproduction steps, affected configurations, intended and actual results, supporting evidence, release impact, fix verification, and adjacent regression coverage.\n\nApply AI assisted tools to analyze test runs and validate conclusions against source logs and engineering decisions.\n\nWhat we need to see:\nA BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years experience in software quality, test automation, or software development and validation.\n\nExperience solving Linux and Windows system issues; development using scripting and programming languages such as Python, C, C++, CUDA, or Bash; and debugging across hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and application layers.\n\nKnowledge of Quality Assurance methodology, risk based test planning, functional validation, regression strategy, release readiness, CI/CD, API integrations, log analysis, root cause isolation, and defect triage.\n\nStrong communication and teamwork skills are essential for explaining release risk and clarifying ownership, dependencies, and blockers.\n\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nExperience with NVIDIA GPU hardware, CUDA, PCIe-based GPUs built for data centers, server platforms, CUDA C or C++ parallel programming, multiple GPU validation, P2P, reliability, or stress testing.\n\nExperience with developing scalable validation infrastructure for labs, cloud environments, containers, virtualization, or configuration management.\n\nPractical use of AI assisted analytics for test planning, automation, failure analysis, or defect detection is also valued.\n\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. 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