Hardware Validation Engineering Manager

Cupertino Until 9/28/2026 4+ years exp First posted July 30, 2026 Last posted July 30, 2026
Job description

In this position, the candidate will be managing a team of engineers for the Hardware Validation Engineering (HVE) team, working on post-Silicon hardware system validation for next generation Mac and Data Center systems. Our Engineering Team is responsible for testing and debugging issues on new system hardware thru the full product development cycle. Your team will be key technical contributors to the silicon and product build phases and will utilize your in-depth software, silicon and system knowledge to target testing on new silicon and system architectures.

Description

The manager will be responsible to work with cross functional teams include Software, Silicon, and Hardware engineering and program managements organizations on test execution deliverables, and debugging failures with these teams as well as external vendors to arrive at root cause.Thru this work you will need to analyze large data sets to find trends and anomalies in silicon or system behavior, and collaborate with your engineering team on the disposition of software and test failures to highlight failures. This will require reviewing system and silicon test coverage and working with cross functional Platform Architecture and Software teams on enhancements and changes as well as representing validation status and issue debugs in cross functional and executive meetings.

Minimum Qualifications

The candidate must possess a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
Minimum of 4 years of experience working on Test or Validation.
Previous experience in pre-silicon or post-silicon validation.
Strong background in computer architecture and IO protocols (i.e. PCIe, USB)
Programming experience in Python, C, Shell scripting.
Outstanding communication and team work skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiar with System Power management, and macOS.
Test automation experience and large scale testing.
Data analysis tools like Tableau, JMP and Splunk.

About this role

Summary

Manage hardware validation team on post-silicon system testing, debugging, and data analysis.

Job title

Hardware Validation Engineering Manager

Experience level

4+ years

Minimum experience

4+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Cupertino; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

Electrical EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceTestValidationPythonCShell scriptingcommunicationteamwork

Preferred skills

System Power managementmacOStest automationlarge scale testingdata analysis tools

Specializations

validationhardwaresystem architectureautomatic testingdata analysis
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

Work arrangement unknown City