Pure Storage

NVMe/SSD Qualification Engineer

Pure Storage

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $263,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

FlashJenkins

About the role

  • Participation in all phases of PURE’s DFM product development cycle with a specific focus on NVMe qualification, which includes executing tests, driving analysis of issues, and guiding expectations based on testing results
  • Organize testing plans for a given drive
  • Drive Qualification of NVMe SSDs across performance/endurance/reliability and compatibility metrics
  • Develop summaries of your expectations and present results in various forums
  • Use your background in storage system validation or design to proactively identify, troubleshoot and communicate device failure modes.
  • Drive issues to resolution – perform initial failure analysis, analyze system for possible correlation, engage with various experts as needed and drive progress through closure
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, marketing and support to introduce new storage devices and subsystems into production.
  • Perform failure analysis and root cause analysis activities in support of system hardening efforts and customer escalations
  • Drive improvements in the qualification processes as you observe execution
  • Brainstorm methods and procedures to evolve our team’s effectiveness
  • Proactively define/develop new SSD qualification tests targeting NVMe features and functions, new requirements, exposure to field issues etc.
  • Improve qualification processes that actively enhance efficiency, consistency, reporting and vendor relationships.
  • Use your strong scripting language skills to develop and automate tests and minimize qualification testing cycles
  • Participate in various team activities aimed at developing testing process,
  • Perceived as highly skilled in storage interface protocols (NVMe, SAS and SATA)
  • Perceived as highly skilled in use of PCIe/SAS/SATA Bus analyzers, trace capture and trace analysis.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in SSD/HDD design, development and qualification. (8+ preferred).
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (M.S. preferred).
  • Experience working at enterprise data storage system, SSD companies or related component vendors
  • Strong knowledge of Flash technologies/roadmaps, SSD controllers, drive FW
  • Strong knowledge of hardware design, storage architectures and storage interfaces.
  • Experience with failure modes of flash-based devices.
  • Experience using NVMe CLI tools or similar and building scripts/tools around it for exhaustive testing
  • Strong knowledge of PCIe/NVme, Firmware Architecture/Design in Solid State Drive (SSD) or similar storage domain.
  • Good Hands-on Experience on Third Party Tools like - Lecroy, Drive Master, OakGate, etc., and Certification.
  • Experience in a hardware testing/software testing validation lab for SSDs or Embedded industry segments
  • Strong ability to devise, implement, automate and refine the qualification methods utilizing your scripting skills.
  • Knowledge/experience with Jenkins & GIT is a plus.
  • SSD firmware development experience is a plus.
  • Highly self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, technical development environment.
  • Detail oriented, analytical, process savvy, and customer focused yet flexible and adaptable to business needs.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams & effectively
  • Collaborate across various levels
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Adaptable - undertake a variety of tasks willingly. Ability to switch from complex to routine tasks when required.
  • Decisive - ability to make decisions quickly when faced with multiple options.
  • Integrity - act with personal integrity at all times.
  • Professional - Confront problems, propose solutions and take ownership through to resolution. Have a positive can-do approach to work.
  • You will be based in Santa Clara, CA. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 4 days a week.