Sr. Validation Engineer

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communication, or a related field.
  
• 4–5 years of experience as a Technical Content Writer in an OEM, hardware product, or enterprise technology company.
  
• Strong understanding of:
  
• Servers, workstations, storage systems
  
• HPC architectures, clusters, and GPUs
  
• Linux (RHEL preferred), virtualization, and networking basics will be extra edge
  
• Excellent written English with the ability to structure complex technical content.
  
• Experience creating hardware-focused documentation (datasheets, manuals, deployment guides).
  
• Hands-on experience with documentation tools such as Confluence, Markdown, MS Word, Git.
  
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and delivery teams.
  

Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science, Electronics, or related).
  
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  
• Server/workstation hardware
  
• Motherboard-level validation
  
• Excellent working knowledge of Linux OS:
  
• RHEL (preferred), Rocky, Ubuntu
  
• Kernel logs, dmesg, system tuning
  
• Solid understanding of:
  
• BIOS concepts, firmware flashing
  
• BMC/IPMI/Redfish fundamentals
  
• Hands-on experience with benchmarking and stress tools:
  
• iperf / iperf3
  
• fio
  
• stress, stress-ng, sysbench
  
• Ability to debug hardware/OS interaction issues.
  
• Strong documentation and reporting skills.
  
  

Good to Have (Highly Preferred)

• Exposure to HPC or AI systems, GPUs, high-speed networking.
  
• Experience with PXE boot, kickstart, automated OS provisioning.
  
• Understanding of NUMA, PCIe topology, and performance tuning.
  
• Experience working with Intel / AMD server platforms.
  
• Familiarity with firmware release cycles and validation sign-offs.
  
• Scripting knowledge in Python or Bash.
  
• Core Tasks: Focused on deep-level system optimization, kernel tuning, and identifying hardware bottlenecks.
  
• Skill Alignment: Uses benchmarking tools to stress-test systems and scripting (Bash/Python) to automate these repetitive performance evaluations.
  
• Linux Knowledge: Managing RHEL, CentOS, or Rocky Linux distributions common in enterprise environments.
  

• Scripting (Bash/Python): Automating health checks, monitoring workloads, and parsing benchmark results
  
• Ansible: Orchestrating "agentless" configuration across hundreds or thousands of compute nodes.
  
• HPL Benchmarking: Validating that new or upgraded hardware meets theoretical FLOPS (floating-point operations per second) performance.
  
• Iperf: Troubleshooting network latency and verifying throughput across high-speed fabrics.
  

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