Full-Time
Tech Lead Ethernet Networking Verification Engineer
NVIDIA
10,001+ employees
Designs GPUs and AI HPC platforms
Compensation Overview
$184k - $287.5k/yr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
Austin, TX, USA
Hybrid
Two days on-site per week required.
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
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- A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of experience developing software for network validation and verification.
- Expert-level Python skills.
- Experience with large-scale verification or automation frameworks.
- Strong Layer 2, Layer 3, and Layer 4 networking knowledge.
- Proven Linux knowledge.
- Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps tools including Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, and Docker.
- Strong communication and leadership skills to align multiple teams and deliver results.
- Lead all aspects of developing and optimizing software, tools, and libraries for the operating system verification infrastructure.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, DevOps, and software teams.
- Develop test suites for network protocols and pre-silicon and post-silicon testing, including bring-up, simulation, and Palladium testing.
- Develop performance indicators and benchmarks to evaluate past and future software performance.
- Build dashboards and reports, including regression analysis and degradation detection.
- Transform and improve existing automation workflows to rapidly deploy new software releases.
- Drive the evolution of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using artificial intelligence agents and current toolsets and models.
- Guide code reviews and architecture discussions and define standard methodologies for verification excellence.
- Coordinate projects across verification teams worldwide.
- Mentor and serve as a role model for junior team members.
- A background in scalable or distributed systems.
- Experience with multi-node testing or performance validation.
- Strong debugging skills, especially for concurrency issues.
- A deep understanding of networking, data center topologies, and embedded systems architecture.
- Previous experience validating vendor or merchant silicon.
NVIDIA designs and manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs) and computing platforms used for gaming, data centers, and artificial intelligence. These products work by using parallel processing to handle complex mathematical calculations much faster than standard computer processors, supported by a software ecosystem that allows developers to build and run AI models. Unlike competitors that may focus solely on hardware, NVIDIA integrates its chips with specialized software and cloud services to create a complete environment for high-performance tasks. The company’s goal is to provide the underlying technology necessary to power advanced computing, from realistic video game graphics to autonomous vehicles and large-scale data analysis.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
Founded
1993
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Reuters reported only very few H200 chips shipped to China, preserving optionality.
- NVIDIA's August 2026 financing platforms mobilize outside capital for customers buying its hardware.
- Poolside and Cloverleaf investments deepen software and power access for future datacenter demand.
What critics are saying
- U.S. export controls blocked Blackwell shipments to China, shrinking a major demand pool.
- France's competition authority nears ending its antitrust probe, risking fines and remedies.
- Circular-financing backlash around $500 billion platforms and Poolside licensing could trigger scrutiny by 2027.
What makes NVIDIA unique
- NVIDIA controls the AI stack, from Blackwell chips to CUDA software and networking.
- August 10, 2026 financing partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR broaden distribution.
- Poolside's Model Factory deal embeds NVIDIA inside model-building workflows, not just accelerators.
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