Hardware Qualification Engineer

HCLTech is seeking a Hardware Qualification Engineer with Linux, server/GPU platform validation, Python automation, and HPC exposure.

Role: Hardware Qualification Engineer – URGENT

Location: Clifton, NJ – Onsite

Required Skills

• Deep understanding of hardware subsystems (BMC, PCIe, CPU, GPU, etc.)
• Proven experience with hardware qualification for production release (SKU Qual)
• Experience testing component subsystems for existing SKUs (Component Qual)
• Strong Linux systems experience including networking, configuration management, security, monitoring, and alerting
• Firmware testing and deployment (Firmware Qual)
• Strong automation mindset; Python mandatory
• Expertise with orchestration tools: Salt, Chef, Ansible, or Puppet
• Strong documentation and communication skills

Bonus Skills

• Hands‑on experience with HPC clusters (NVIDIA / AMD)
• Wide‑scale automated testing experience (NCCL, similar frameworks)
• Qualification automation framework development

What You’ll Be Working On

• Onsite support for hardware qualification at NYC3 and SFO2
• Qualification of new server SKUs (Compute, GPU Hypervisor, Storage, Infrastructure)
• Hardware validation against functional and performance targets
• Hardware reconfiguration to support multiple test efforts
• Platform onboarding and integration troubleshooting
• Firmware, BIOS, and kernel upgrades and testing

Performance testing, analysis, and monitoring

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range Minimum: $74000 per year

Pay Range Maximum: $113000 per year

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to ***email_hidden*** for investigation.

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.

How You’ll Grow

At HCLTech, we offer continuous opportunities for you to find your spark and grow with us. We want you to be happy and satisfied with your role and to really learn what type of work sparks your brilliance the best. Throughout your time with us, we offer transparent communication with senior-level employees, learning and career development programs at every level, and opportunities to experiment in different roles or even pivot industries. We believe that you should be in control of your career with unlimited opportunities to find the role that fits you best.