Samsung
Staff Engineer, Storage Product Planning
$152K–$236K
San Jose, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of direct storage-industry experience; education-based alternatives: Bachelor’s degree or higher with 10+ years, Master’s degree with 8+ years, or Ph.D. with 5+ years; equivalent field also stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; equivalent field accepted.
About the job
Drive Samsung’s enterprise and datacenter storage roadmap by influencing industry standards, aligning hyperscaler requirements with Samsung SSD products, and translating standards into R&D requirements.
What you'll do
- Draft and influence technical specifications and proposals in NVMe, OCP, and SNIA standards groups.
- Work with hyperscalers and Samsung teams to shape storage architectures and translate customer requirements into SSD features and roadmaps.
- Support standards compliance, protect intellectual property through patents, and create customer-facing technical materials.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of direct storage-industry experience, including legacy HDD systems and modern NAND flash and SSD development.
- Track record of technical influence, contributions, or committee leadership in storage industry bodies or alliances.
- Experience designing or standardizing storage solutions meeting OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD Specifications required by major cloud vendors.
- Deep knowledge of PCIe/NVMe, FDP, telemetry, SAS/SATA/SCSI, and SNIA storage-management frameworks.
Pay
$152,000 — $236,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
NVMe, NVMe-oF, OCP, SNIA, PCIe, FDP, SAS, SATA
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