Principal Engineer, Platform Validation

About this role

Hyve Company Overview  Hyve Solutions transforms complex engineering challenges into production reality for technology innovators building AI, cloud, and connected infrastructure. As a US-based manufacturing partner, the company rapidly delivers fast, agile execution through dep technical partnerships and co-innovation, and supply chain clarity. Hyve’s integrated ODM, CM, and SI capabilities eliminate vendor complexity while accelerating time-to-market with single-partner accountability from design through scale. The company co-innovates with deep engineering expertise, treating customer success as its own while building tomorrow's digital infrastructure.  

Key Responsibilities Validation Strategy & Architecture • Define validation frameworks and qualification strategies for server, storage, AI, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms. • Establish validation requirements and coverage models based on product specifications, customer requirements, and deployment use cases. • Develop platform validation roadmaps supporting current and future datacenter technologies. • Drive risk-based validation planning across hardware, firmware, software, and system integration domains. • Establish best practices for platform qualification and release readiness.

System Integration Validation • Lead system-level validation for complete datacenter solutions, including: • Compute platforms • AI/GPU systems • Storage platforms • Networking infrastructure • Rack integration solutions • Power and cooling subsystems

• Ensure proper interoperability across hardware, firmware, software, and management components. • Define validation requirements for deployment readiness, scalability, serviceability, and operational functionality. • Drive multi-component integration testing across platform ecosystems.

Technical Architecture & Design Reviews • Collaborate with system architects and engineering teams during product definition and development. • Review platform architectures to ensure validation coverage and testability. • Drive Design-for-Validation (DfV) methodologies. • Identify validation risks early in product development and recommend mitigation strategies. • Participate in architecture reviews, design reviews, qualification reviews, and production readiness reviews.

Customer Qualification & Deployment Readiness • Define validation requirements aligned with customer deployment environments. • Partner with customers to understand qualification expectations and acceptance criteria. • Develop customer qualification plans and deployment validation strategies. • Lead readiness reviews supporting customer sampling, pilot deployments, and production releases. • Support technical engagements during customer qualification cycles.

Platform Feature Validation • Define validation strategies for: • Platform functionality • System management • Security features • Firmware integration • Operating system compatibility • Virtualization environments • AI infrastructure software stacks • Datacenter deployment workflows

• Establish validation coverage for emerging technologies and new platform capabilities.

Automation & Validation Infrastructure • Define automated validation architectures and test execution frameworks. • Drive adoption of automation, telemetry, and analytics capabilities. • Establish scalable validation lab environments supporting concurrent development programs. • Improve validation efficiency through modern testing methodologies and toolchains.

Manufacturing & Production Readiness • Support validation activities during EVT, DVT, PVT, and production release phases. • Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure smooth transition from development to production. • Define production qualification requirements and validation signoff criteria. • Support factory build readiness and release qualification activities.

Technical Leadership • Serve as the technical authority for platform validation methodologies and best practices. • Mentor validation engineers and technical leads. • Drive standardization of validation processes across product families. • Evaluate emerging technologies, validation tools, and industry practices. • Influence product quality and validation strategy across Hyve's datacenter portfolio.

Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline. • 12+ years of experience in platform development, validation engineering, system architecture, or datacenter infrastructure engineering. • 7+ years leading validation efforts for complex server, storage, networking, AI, or cloud infrastructure platforms. • Strong understanding of: • Server architectures • GPU and accelerator technologies • Networking technologies • Storage platforms • System firmware • Datacenter deployment models

• Experience with system integration validation and qualification methodologies. • Experience supporting product development through EVT, DVT, PVT, and production release phases. • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications • Master's degree in Engineering or related field. • Experience supporting hyperscale cloud providers and enterprise datacenter customers. • Experience with: • AI/ML infrastructure platforms • High-performance computing systems • Liquid cooling technologies • OCP-based platforms • Rack-scale solutions

• Knowledge of validation automation frameworks and data analytics. • Experience in customer qualification and production deployment environments.

Core Technical Competencies Platform Architecture • x86 and ARM server platforms • GPU and accelerator systems • Datacenter storage systems • Ethernet and InfiniBand networking • Rack-level architecture • Platform management and telemetry

Validation Expertise • System integration validation • Feature validation • Firmware validation • Customer qualification • OS compatibility testing • Interoperability testing • Dep

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