Principal Engineer, Platform Validation

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 tool chains.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical…