System Validation Engineering Manager

Cornelis Networks delivers the world’s highest performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters. Our differentiated architecture seamlessly integrates hardware, software and system level technologies to maximize the efficiency of GPU, CPU and accelerator-based compute clusters at any scale. Our solutions drive breakthroughs in AI & HPC workloads, empowering our customers to push the boundaries of innovation. Backed by top-tier venture capital and strategic investors, we are committed to innovation, performance and scalability - solving the world’s most demanding computational challenges with our next-generation networking solutions.

We are a fast-growing, forward-thinking team of architects, engineers, and business professionals with a proven track record of building successful products and companies. As a global organization, our team spans multiple U.S. states and six countries, and we continue to expand with exceptional talent in onsite, hybrid, and fully remote roles.

As a System Validation Engineering Manager at Cornelis Networks, you will build and lead our System Validation team while collaborating with engineering leaders across the organization to define and execute comprehensive validation strategies for our current and next-generation networking products. You will be responsible for developing validation plans, driving automation, establishing scalable processes, and ensuring the quality and reliability of complex hardware and software systems.

In this leadership role, you will balance engineering priorities, customer expectations, and product delivery timelines while fostering a high-performing validation organization focused on quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

• Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing System Validation team.
• Develop software validation plans and strategies based on functional requirements.
• Define and oversee validation activities throughout the software development lifecycle, from manual exploratory testing to fully automated regression test suites.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and validation infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain continuous integration (CI) systems, monitor test results, and drive timely triage of validation failures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across system, network, hardware, and software layers.
• Establish validation processes, metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure product quality and team effectiveness.
• Ensure thorough documentation of validation plans, test procedures, execution results, and release readiness.
• Partner closely with hardware, firmware, software, and product engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and resolve defects.
• Drive continuous improvements in validation methodologies, automation, tooling, and best practices.
• Support product qualification efforts to ensure successful customer deployments and product releases.

• Experience leading technical teams responsible for validation and qualification of complex networking, distributed systems, or comparable hardware and software platforms.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling a system validation organization, including defining processes, automation strategies, tooling, and quality metrics.
• Strong understanding of software validation methodologies, test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and defect management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering organizations and present status, risks, and metrics to executive leadership.
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies to improve validation engineering through AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and data-driven analytics.
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