# Senior System Validation Engineer, DOCA

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Yokneam
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically strong Senior Engineer to lead the validation of NVIDIA DOCA BF-Bundles (BFBs) for BlueField DPUs and SuperNICs. This role focuses on system-level validation of full software and firmware bundles, including installation flows, upgrade paths, firmware integration, and regression automation across hardware platforms.

You will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, stability, and release readiness of DOCA Bluefield images powering data centers worldwide. This is a high-impact and hands-on role requiring deep Linux expertise, strong debugging and coding skills, automation leadership, and full ownership mindset across complex system stacks.

Responsibilities:

- Own the BFB validation architecture and strategy , define coverage, qualification criteria, and release gates for full DOCA bundle deliveries.

- Design, Develop and Automate system-level tests of installation, upgrade/downgrade, recovery, and multi-version compatibility across BlueField platforms.

- Validate full-stack integration of firmware, boot flows, OS services, drivers, networking stack, and DOCA runtime integration.

- Drive deep cross-layer debugging across firmware, kernel, networking, and user-space to identify root cause and influence long-term fixes.

- Act as technical focal point for release readiness, providing risk assessment, regression health analysis, and clear execution signals.

- Continuously elevate validation methodology, improving scalability, coverage, execution efficiency, and failure triage workflows.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- 5+ years of experience in system-level software verification or low-level software engineering.

- Strong Python programming skills

- Strong hands-on Linux expertise (boot flows, system services, networking stack, systemd, kernel interaction)

- Experience debugging complex multi-layer issues with a structured, evidence-based approach.

- Experience working with real hardware platforms in addition to virtualized environments.

- Strong analytical mindset with ability to independently drive technical investigations.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

- Experience validating firmware-integrated platforms (DPUs, SmartNICs, embedded systems, networking devices).

- Familiarity with BlueField architecture and DOCA SDK.

- Experience with secure boot, bootloaders, or system provisioning flows.

- Background in networking, data center infrastructure, or distributed systems.

- Experience in CI methodology & servers (e.g. Gerrit, Jenkins etc.)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Linux
- System-level software verification
- Low-level software engineering
- Debugging
- Cross-layer debugging
- Release readiness
- Risk assessment
- Regression health analysis
- CI methodology
- Gerrit
- Jenkins

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