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Staff / Sr. Staff/ Principal Systems Engineer - eSSD Validation
$120K–$210K
San Jose · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on enterprise storage or semiconductor experience.
About the job
Validates enterprise PCIe NVMe SSDs by designing and running test plans, analyzing failures, and coordinating debugging with internal teams and customers.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and execute test plans for PCIe and NVMe enterprise SSDs; track testing and report findings.
- Triage failures, perform test gap analysis, and work with SOC, FW, and HW teams to resolve issues.
- Work with FAE/CAE to debug and resolve customer issues and respond to inquiries.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on enterprise storage or semiconductor experience.
- Experience with physical protocol analyzers and trace evaluation tools.
- Mastery of PCIe (Gen 4/5/6/), NVMe 2.0+, NVMe-MI, and SMBus / I2C.
- Python / C / C++ for hardware test automation and interacting with PCIe configuration registers / firmware registers.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Linux Kernel and drivers and NAND.
- Experience with Embedded Firmware; understanding of storage architectures and system-level debugging.
Pay
$120,000/yr - $210,000/yr USD (base salary)
Tools
PCIe, NVMe, NVMe-MI, SMBus, I2C, Python, C, C++
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