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Sr. SSD Application Engineer

$150k - $200k

Texas State Library and Archives Commision

Job Description:

  • Develop front end firmware features necessary to meet the product specification and customer requirements.
  • Develop and modify existing firmware for SSD product requirements following PCIe and NVMe protocols.
  • Debug host interface related problems encountered during internal or customer firmware testing.
  • Perform root cause analysis and make appropriate changes to correct the problem.
  • Work directly with hardware designers to efficiently resolve customer issues.
  • Working with customers to manage SSD debug and qualification requirements in collaboration with SMI Engineering Teams, driving technical design-in/-win, and debug hardware, firmware, and other platform-related barriers to adoption.
  • Interfacing with customers and internal platform partners to resolve product issues and leverage those learning to shape future product (controller / Firmware) definition.
  • Evangelizes technical benefits of SMI Enterprise controllers and various business models at the platform level; creates preference for SMI products within the platform; enables customer and end-user adoption of solutions; and supports ecosystem and tools enabling to drive controller solution adoption
  • Advocating technical customer needs to internal stakeholders
  • Driving internal teams to deliver to customer expectations
  • Participates in customers meetings and presentations, acting as technical adviser, consultant, analyst, and program manager for customer technical interactions in collaboration with SMI PM teams
  • The AE will work closely with customers and partners to establish strong relationships that deliver results and team business objectives in the data center / enterprise segments
Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
  • At least 3 years work experience in each of the following:
  • Software/firmware applications engineering
  • Experience in SSD controller/firmware architecture
  • Experience with PCIe and NVMe protocols in firmware development and debugging, including but not limited to host reset, power management, namespace, MSI-X, SMBus, ARP, NVMe commands etc.
  • Experience in analyzing PCIe protocol traces to identify the root cause for front end issues.
  • Experience in the storage industry in SSD, HDD, storage systems, or a related technology.
  • Strong experience in C/C++ programming and data structure
  • Hands on experience with JTAG/ICE debuggers
  • Experience with version control software like Git.
  • Competent to work independently as well as in a small team collaboration environment.
  • Must be willing to learn fast and execute as a team player.
  • Good oral, written and presentation skills for communication and documentation.
  • Ability to work independently with a minimum of day-to-day supervision.
  • The ability to operate logic analyzer, oscilloscope and bus protocol analyzer is valuable.
  • Experience with hardware peripherals, features, and development environments is also valuable.
  • Compute and/or Storage System hardware and/or software using both Windows and Linux based operating systems in the data center/enterprise.
  • HDD/SSD systems/protocols and/or SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe).
  • Familiarity with Datacenter architecture and interfaces, PCIe Switches, RAID controllers, HBAs, Expanders, and JBODs/JBOFs.
  • Knowledge of SSD hardware and firmware architecture.
  • Microsoft and Linux datacenter OS debug experience.
  • Fluent in reading and writing Mandarin preferred.



Estimated Base Pay Range (USD) for this full-time position is:


$150,000 - $200,000, $ per annum
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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