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Vantage Point Consulting Inc.

Hardware Qualification Engineer

Vantage Point Consulting Inc., Clifton

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JOB DESCRIPTION
Required Skills:
  • Deep understanding of hardware designs and subsystems (BMC, PCIe, CPU, GPU , etc.)
  • Proven experience with qualification of Hardware Designs for production release (SKU Qual )
  • Experience with testing component subsystems for use in existing SKUs (Component Qual )
  • Deep Linux systems experience including troubleshooting network interfaces
  • Developing and applying configuration management, security best practices, and monitoring and alerting
  • Experience with firmware testing and deployment (Firmware Qual )
  • Strong automation mindset
  • Expert knowledge in 1 or more orchestration tools such as
    Salt, Chef, Ansible, or Puppet , and strong Python skills
  • Strong communication skills - your job will involve writing detailed documentation for others to pick up or leading knowledge-sharing sessions with operations teams
Bonus Skills Include:
  • Hands-on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments from Nvidia or AMD
  • Experience in performing automated wide-scale testing on NCCL or other frameworks
  • Hands-on experience in qualification automation with specific focus on developing testing within an automation framework for hands-free qualification
What You'll Be Working On:
  • Onsite support of our hardware qualification efforts in NYC3 and SFO2
  • Hardware qualification of new server SKUs for Compute and GPU Hypervisor , Storage , and Infrastructure server hardware
  • Hardware validation against design targets (functional and performance related)
  • Hardware reconfiguration to support different testing efforts (changes to server components)
  • Troubleshooting hardware integration with the platform operational tooling (onboarding)
  • Firmware validation and qualification
  • Performance testing, analysis, and monitoring
  • Firmware, BIOS, Kernel upgrades and testing