Senior Software QA Test Development Engineer - Diagnostics

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software QA Test Development Engineer - Diagnostics in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $140k-$224k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include PyTorch, TensorFlow and Cursor.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
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NVIDIA is the world leader in GPU Computing. We are passionate about markets include gaming, automotive, vision, HPC, datacenters and networking in addition to our traditional OEM business. NVIDIA is also well positioned as the ‘AI Computing Company’, and NVIDIA GPUs are the brains powering Deep Learning software frameworks, analytics, data centers, and driving autonomous vehicles. We have some of the most experienced and dedicated people in the world working for us. If you are dedicated, forward-thinking, and hard-working technical people across countries sounds exciting, this job is for you. NVIDIA is looking for an outstanding individual who thrives in a diverse work environment, has outstanding interpersonal skills and possesses a strong sense of engagement and continuous process improvement. This candidate must have enterprise server integration, strong Linux experience, reliability testing with various telemetries, scale out cluster, test plan development, track record in developing AI tools and NLP, DevOps, CI/CD experience to join our platform SWQA team.

What you’ll be doing:

Responsible for the development and execution of NVIDIA HGX/DGX/MGX platform test plan on servers, OS, FW and CUDA SW stack from design doc.
Installing and testing various systems OS, server firmware and SW stack.
Drive support for root cause analysis on reliability and validation test failures to identify root cause(s) and achieve mitigation.
Build, develop/debug server and OS level automation front-end and back-end framework and tests
Review partner and supplier test results and prescribe additional reliability testing on components, servers, and packaging as needed.
Work in an agile software development team with very high production quality standards.
Manage bug lifecycle and collaborate with inter-groups to drive for solutions.

What we need to see:

Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or Physics) field
5+ years proven experience; or master’s degree.
Proven years of OS and server level automation, CI/CD process and DevOps experience using Python, SHELL, Ansible, Jenkins, C/C++, Java, JavaScript
Strong server and Linux(Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, Fedora and etc…) troubleshooting and debugging experience in a bare-metal and KVM/VMWare/Hyper-V environment.
Good knowledge and hands-on experience in model testing, AI tools/frameworks (TensorFlow, Pytorch, Cursor and etc…), NLP and LLM benchmarking
Experience in using AI development tools for test plans creation, test cases development and test cases automation
Strong experience in FW, BMC/OpenBMC, Network protocol, internal/external enterprise storage devices, PCIe buses and devices, IO sub-devices, CPU and memory, ACPI, UEFI spec, Redfish - huge plus
Proven years of experience in GitHub/Gitlab/Gerrit, PXE, SLURM, Stack/Kubernetes/Docker) – huge plus

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

AI related tools, LLM and NLP.
Experience working with NVIDIA GPU hardware is a strong plus.
Good to have solid understanding of virtualization in Linux (KVM, Docker orchestrated with Kubernetes)
Background in parallel programming ideally CUDA/OpenCL is a plus

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
140,000 USD – 224,250 USD for Level 3; and 168,000 USD – 270,250 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

How we rate this

Senior Software QA Test Development Engineer - Diagnostics at NVIDIA rates 7 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Software QA Test Development Engineer - Diagnostics is an open job at NVIDIA.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $140k-$224k a year.
The role is based in US, CA, Santa Clara.
The job was posted on September 15, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by NVIDIA. Apply on NVIDIA

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
Walk me through how you've used PyTorch in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of TensorFlow that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used Cursor hands-on?

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