Job Summary
We are looking for a Validation Engineer to validate and qualify AI software, firmware, hardware, and system-level features for edge AI accelerator platforms. The role involves designing validation strategies, developing automation frameworks, executing functional and performance testing, and ensuring high-quality releases across embedded and AI workloads.
The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Linux systems, automation, AI/ML validation, CI/CD workflows, and debugging complex hardware-software interactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute validation plans for AI accelerator platforms, embedded systems, and SDK releases.
- Validate AI/ML workloads including LLMs, VLMs, vision, audio, and NLP models across different hardware targets.
- Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Python, Bash, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform functional, regression, stress, performance, and scalability testing.
- Validate PCIe, USB, networking, memory, storage, and system-level interfaces.
- Debug issues across firmware, kernel drivers, runtime,



and application layers.
- Work closely with software, compiler, runtime, hardware, and DevOps teams for issue triaging and release qualification.
- Build automated validation pipelines for nightly, release, and PR-based testing.
- Analyze logs, crashes, performance bottlenecks, and system stability issues.
- Create detailed validation reports, dashboards, and quality metrics.
- Support customer-specific validation and benchmarking activities.
- Manage and maintain lab infrastructure, devices, and automated execution environments.
- Validate deployments across x86, ARM, Linux, containerized, and cloud-based environments.
- Ensure release readiness through comprehensive test coverage and execution.

Required Skills
Technical Skills
- Solid experience in:
- Python scripting and automation
- Linux systems and shell scripting
- CI/CD tools such as Jenkins/GitHub Actions
- Docker and containerized env

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