Pure Storage
Principal Hardware Systems Engineer
$217K–$326K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara, California, United States
About the job
Sets the technical roadmap and leads end-to-end architecture, design, validation, and reliability of next-generation enterprise and cloud-scale storage hardware platforms.
What you'll do
- Define platform architectures and multi-generational hardware roadmaps, balancing performance, density, power, thermal needs, and cost.
- Lead partner design reviews and validation strategy, including automated testing, system bring-up, and production release criteria.
- Direct escalated hardware failure analysis and cross-functional efforts to improve platform reliability, availability, and serviceability.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in enterprise server and storage architecture, rack-scale power and thermal design, storage protocols, and multi-node systems.
- Extensive hands-on experience with system bring-up, signal-integrity validation, and hardware failure analysis.
- Proven experience building automated validation pipelines and stress-testing enterprise infrastructure.
- Track record leading multidisciplinary engineering efforts, mentoring engineers, and influencing vendors.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with leaf-spine networks, RoCE, RDMA, InfiniBand, and BGP.
Pay
$217,000 — $326,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
x86, ARM, PCIe Gen 5/6, CXL, NVMe-oF, Python, Bash, Redfish
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