Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior QA Engineer role focused on testing NVIDIA's Workstation and Virtualization products. Responsibilities include reproducing customer-reported issues, performing root cause analysis, validating fixes, and developing Python, C#, and C++ scripts and diagnostic tools. The role also involves building AI-driven tools to improve workflow efficiency and experience with Generative AI platforms/LLMs is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Reproduce issues reported by OEMs, enterprise customers, and partners.
  2. Collaborate with software developers, program managers, and customers to determine root causes, and verify defect fixes.
  3. Validate NVIDIA products on customer-specific platforms and configurations to ensure compatibility and reliability.
  4. Build Python, C#, and C++-based scripts and diagnostic tools aimed at increasing bug reproduction and troubleshooting efficiency.
  5. Build AI-driven tools and technologies that improve workflow efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • Windows
  • virtualization technologies (VMware ESXi, Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM)
  • scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
  • troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware and software issues
  • PC architecture, supercomputers, and computer clusters
  • building, configuring, and troubleshooting PCs and servers
  • debugging tools, memory dump analysis, remote debugging and Windows performance tracing tools (e.g., ETW)
  • graphics technology such as DirectX (DX), OpenGL (OGL), Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), CUDA, and OpenCL

Nice to have

  • planning, installing, and optimizing virtualization environments
  • Linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat, Ubuntu)
  • Generative AI platforms / LLMs such as Gemini, Claude, Copilot, etc. to develop tools powered by artificial intelligence

What the JD emphasized

  • optimizing virtualization platforms
  • Python, C#, and C++
  • AI-driven tools
  • Generative AI platforms / LLMs