Senior Test Specialist
United States
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Job Description
Senior Test Specialist
San Jose, California

Job Summary

As a Customer Quality Engineer,

The ideal candidate is a strategic and technically deep leader with a strong customer-first mindset and a passion for improving quality outcomes at scale. You are highly collaborative and effective at influencing across engineering, manufacturing, and quality organizations. 

You are comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced environments and working directly with hyperscale and enterprise customers. You bring strong communication skills, the ability to translate technical insights into actionable improvements, and a track record of driving alignment across cross-functional teams

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive customer quality outcomes across AI and data center infrastructure deployments, ensuring high reliability in production environments 
  • Translate fleet-scale signals and customer issues into actionable improvements across product, validation, and manufacturing 
  • Monitor and improve customer-facing quality metrics across hyperscale and enterprise deployments 
  • Apply advanced reliability methodologies, including physics-based modeling and statistical analysis, to improve quality outcomes 
  • Enable predictive approaches that support high-confidence deployments at scale 
  • Partner with architecture, design, manufacturing, OSAT, and the corporate Quality organization to align on quality priorities 
  • Influence cross-functional decisions to improve product and platform quality outcomes 
  • Support product launch readiness by identifying test gaps and driving improvements in validation and qualification 
  • Provide feedback from customer deployments to improve manufacturing screening, defect detection, and DPM performance 
  • Strengthen feedback loops between customer environments and internal engineering teams

Skill Requirements

  • Several years of experience in semiconductor product quality, customer quality, or silicon manufacturing quality   
  • Background in semiconductor product quality, customer quality, or silicon manufacturing quality, including high-volume silicon deployments in hyperscale or enterprise environments 
  • Deep understanding of data center CPUs, GPUs, or AI accelerator platforms, including server system architecture (compute, memory, I/O, and RAS) 
  • Expertise in product reliability methodologies, manufacturing quality systems, and product qualification processes 
  • Demonstrated ability to translate customer and system-level failures into improvements in product design, test coverage, and manufacturing screening 
  • Proven capability in defining test patterns and system-level validation methodologies to detect time-zero and reliability defect modes 
  • Strong foundation in system-level quality and reliability analysis across complex silicon or SoC architectures, including large-scale validation or fleet environments 
  • Track record of influencing cross-functional teams and driving quality improvements across engineering, manufacturing, and quality organizations 
  • Experience collaborating with foundry and OSAT partners to achieve defect-per-million (DPM) targets and improve manufacturing outcomes 
  • Familiarity with advanced silicon technologies, heterogeneous compute, or high-performance computing architectures 

Other Requirements

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Maximum Salary (US):  178000
Minimum Salary (US):  117000
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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 226,300 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their 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.