Tech Lead Ethernet Networking Verification Engineer

About the role

NVIDIA wants a highly qualified engineer for its Ethernet Switch Networking Development team based in Austin. You will work within a rapidly growing team to better serve customers and show results. This role blends leadership with hands-on technical involvement, emphasizing on Networking Switch SDK Verification. This person shall partner with Architecture, SDK & Firmware development, and Customer Facing teams. They will compose new test infrastructure and actively improve current systems to boost the quality of NVIDIA's Ethernet Software Stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of development and optimization of software, tools, and libraries, to maintain OS verification infrastructure.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, DevOps, and software teams.
• Develop new test suites for network protocols, pre and post silicon tests (bring up/simulation/ palladium).
• Develop performance indicators, 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 future evolution of CI/CD pipelines using AI agents and the latest toolsets/models.
• Guide code reviews and architecture discussions and define standard methodologies for verification excellence.
• Coordinate projects across verification teams worldwide.
• Mentor and be a role-model for junior team members.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science / Software / Electrical Engineering (or similar) or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in developing software for Network validation and verification.
• Expert level Python skills.
• Experience with large-scale verification or automation frameworks.
• Strong networking background (L2 / L3 / L4).
• Proven Linux knowledge.
• CI/CD & DevOps tools (Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Docker).
• Strong communication and leadership skills to align multiple teams and deliver results.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Background in scalable or distributed systems.
• Experience with multi-node testing or performance validation.
• Strong debugging skills (especially concurrency issues) while maintaining a cool and calm personality.
• Deep understanding of networking, data center topologies and embedded system architecture.
• Previous experience validating vendor/merchant silicon.

Pay

Base salary range: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.