Fixed Asset Manager
Technical leader owning compute qualification, first-silicon and new-platform validation, test automation, and root-cause failure analysis for AI compute infrastructure. Requires senior hardware validation or systems engineering experience with early hardware qualification and automation ownership.
About the job
Role Scope
- Set the technical direction for compute qualification: methods, tooling, and the standards the lab holds hardware to.
- Own the hardest qualifications yourself: first silicon, new platforms, and the failures nobody can explain.
- Build the automation: test harnesses and data pipelines that multiply the lab's throughput.
- Represent Labs to vendors and the fleet: the technical voice on what's ready and what isn't.
Requirements
- Been the senior technical voice in hardware validation or systems engineering.
- Qualified early hardware, engineering samples or first-run systems, and shipped the findings.
- Built test automation others still use.
- Failure analyses go to root cause, not to plausible.
- Mentor engineers up the debugging stack.
Nice-to-Haves
- Accelerator architecture depth.
- Signal and power integrity exposure.
- Large-scale burn-in design.
- Vendor engineering relationships.
Skills
Hardware Validation, Systems Engineering, Test Automation, Failure Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Debugging, Compute Qualification, Burn-In Design, Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, Accelerator Architecture
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