Principal Hardware Engineer, SSD

What you'll do

• Lead SSD hardware design, validation, characterization, and production support.
• Analyze, simulate, validate, and debug signal and power integrity for high-speed interfaces and subsystems; lead board bring-up and root-cause investigations.
• Coordinate across technical teams, mentor engineers, and promote AI tools and automation to improve productivity and debugging.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 5+ years of hardware design experience in SSD, storage, high-performance computing, or related technologies.
• Expertise in high-speed hardware design, transmission line theory, signal integrity, power integrity, and PCB development.
• Hands-on board bring-up, hardware debugging, use of oscilloscopes and logic analyzers, schematic review, and laboratory validation.
• PCIe experience, compliance testing methodologies, and high-speed signal measurements in the 20-35 GHz range; ability to lead projects and communicate across teams.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field; SSD controller, NAND flash, or storage system experience.
• PCIe Gen4, Gen5, or Gen6, DDR memory subsystems, ONFI interfaces, or experience with AI-assisted and Agentic AI engineering tools.

Pay

$152,000.00 - $280,000.00 a year (USD, base salary)

Tools

PCIe, PCIe Gen4, Gen5, Gen6, DDR, ONFI, NAND flash, PCB

AI focus

Promote AI tools and automation to improve engineering productivity and debug efficiency; preferred experience applying AI-assisted and Agentic AI tools to hardware design, validation, debugging, and workflow automation.