Tensordyne
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Sr. Hardware Sustaining-DVT Engineer

Location
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • hardware validation
  • DVT testing
  • oscilloscopes
  • power supplies
  • test plan development

Also useful

  • EVT/PVT certification processes
  • in-system programmers
  • test automation scripting

Stated benefits & perks

  • Flexible spending

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be responsible for DVT (Design Verification Testing) and Sustaining for early-stage validation and bring-up of Tensordyne's next-generation hardware products for generative AI inference acceleration. You will drive hardware bring-up for new designs, debug issues, and ensure all systems meet performance and reliability specifications.

Responsibilities include creating and executing hardware test plans, validating functionality, identifying and root-causing failures, making design changes, managing part lifecycle, building and maintaining benchtop test environments, and supporting reliability and stress testing across Tensordyne's hardware portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Support all aspects of hardware system validation and sustaining of Tensordyne's board and system level products.
  • Gather requirements and specifications from engineering, product and operations teams for planning Hardware Validation and creating Test Plans.
  • Hands on responsibility for board bring up, programming, performing functional test and design verification and board characterization.
  • Support Compliance testing activities.
  • Drive hardware parts selection and vendor qualification processes in collaboration with manufacturing operations.
  • Analyze failures and find root causes for issues and drive them to resolution.
  • Make necessary design changes and drive ECO/MCO releases.
  • Support Diagnostic and Manufacturing Test development activities.
  • Develop scripts and tools to automate test procedures and data analysis.

Qualifications

  • B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer engineering.
  • 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience on board and system level products.
  • Experience in creating test setups, writing test plans and reports.
  • Strong knowledge of oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, in-system programmers and analyzers.
  • Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing and certification processes.
  • Self-starter and highly motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment.

Tensordyne's culture was built on the following values

  • Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed.
  • Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone.
  • Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals.
  • Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do.
  • Own it and get it done. Results matter!
  • Make each person better together, than they would be as an individual.
  • Embrace each others' differences, and embrace that there will be differences.

Additional information

A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don't reach out to Tensordyne employees or leaders about our roles -- we've got it covered. We don't accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding.

About our company - Tensordyne (formerly Recogni)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world. It can perform cognitive functions that previously only humans could do, such as perceiving interactions across different modalities and environments - with the ability to quickly learn and then solve complex problems. Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems.

Our mission, through the creation of custom silicon, hardware and software, is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers.

We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for generative Al inference solutions that will make Al even more advantageous for compelling new generative AI applications.Tensordyne is a well funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe.

We take care of our people and their families with comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, flexible spending options, and recognition programs, because building category-defining technology starts with a healthy, supported team. Come join us as we shape the future of multimodal generative artificial intelligence!

Read the original posting

From Tensordyne's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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