Senior Hardware Sustaining / DVT Engineer

Job Title

Senior Hardware Sustaining / DVT Engineer

Role Summary

Drive design verification testing (DVT), hardware bring‑up, and sustaining activities for Tensordyne's board- and system-level generative AI inference products. Work with engineering, product, manufacturing and operations teams to validate functionality, diagnose failures, and implement design changes to meet performance and reliability targets.

Experience Level

Senior — requires significant independent experience. The posting requests 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities for validation, debugging, and sustaining of hardware products.

• Plan and execute hardware validation and verification test plans (EVT/DVT/PVT).
• Hands-on board bring-up, programming, functional testing and characterization.
• Create and maintain benchtop and system-level test environments and fixtures.
• Analyze failures, perform root-cause investigations, and drive corrective actions and ECO/MCO releases.
• Support compliance and certification testing activities.
• Drive parts selection and vendor qualification in collaboration with manufacturing operations.
• Develop diagnostic and manufacturing tests; automate test procedures and data analysis with scripts and tools.
• Support reliability, stress testing, and part lifecycle management for sustaining activities.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for success in the role.

• 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience on board and system-level products.
• Hands-on experience with board bring-up, in-system programming, and board characterization.
• Experience writing test plans, executing tests, and producing validation reports (EVT/DVT/PVT).
• Familiarity with oscilloscopes, digital multimeters (DMMs), programmable power supplies, and protocol analyzers.
• Experience developing diagnostics, manufacturing test programs, and automation scripts for data capture and analysis.
• Ability to analyze failures, perform root-cause analysis, and drive design changes to resolution.
• Self-starter comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and collaborating across teams.
• Experience with vendor qualification, parts selection, and support for compliance testing (preferred but common in role).

Education Requirements

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.

About the Company

Company: Tensordyne

Tensordyne is a startup developing high-performance, low-power AI inference processors and multi-chip systems for generative AI acceleration in data centers. The company focuses on ASIC design, verification, and integration of computational accelerators with third-party SoC IP.