System Validation Manager

About the Company

Cornelis Networks delivers the world’s highest performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters. Our differentiated architecture seamlessly integrates hardware, software, and system-level technologies to maximize the efficiency of GPU, CPU, and accelerator-based compute clusters at any scale. Our solutions drive breakthroughs in AI & HPC workloads, empowering customers to push the boundaries of innovation. Backed by top-tier venture capital and strategic investors, we are committed to innovation, performance, and scalability—solving the world’s most demanding computational challenges with next-generation networking solutions. We are a fast-growing, forward-thinking team of architects, engineers, and business professionals with a proven track record of building successful products and companies. Our global team spans multiple U.S. states and six countries, offering onsite, hybrid, and fully remote roles.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing System Validation team.
• Develop software validation plans and strategies based on functional requirements.
• Define and oversee validation activities throughout the software development lifecycle, from manual exploratory testing to fully automated regression test suites.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and validation infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain continuous integration (CI) systems, monitor test results, and drive timely triage of validation failures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across system, network, hardware, and software layers.
• Establish validation processes, metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure product quality and team effectiveness.
• Ensure thorough documentation of validation plans, test procedures, execution results, and release readiness.
• Partner closely with hardware, firmware, software, and product engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and resolve defects.
• Drive continuous improvements in validation methodologies, automation, tooling, and best practices.
• Support product qualification efforts to ensure successful customer deployments and product releases.

Requirements

• Experience leading technical teams responsible for validation and qualification of complex networking, distributed systems, or comparable hardware and software platforms.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling a system validation organization, including defining processes, automation strategies, tooling, and quality metrics.
• Strong understanding of software validation methodologies, test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and defect management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering organizations and present status, risks, and metrics to executive leadership.
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies to improve validation engineering through AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and data-driven analytics.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior networking experience (e.g., Omni-Path, InfiniBand, Ethernet).
• Prior Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Familiarity with testing of distributed systems and routing/switching concepts.
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary engineering environment.

Location

This is a remote position for employees residing within the United States.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Dependent care flexible spending account.
• Accidental injury insurance and pet insurance.
• Generous paid holidays.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees.
• Paid sick time, bonding leave, and pregnancy disability leave.

Pay

Competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives. Base salary is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location relative to the hiring range. Eligible roles may also receive performance-based incentives, including an annual bonus or sales incentives.