Senior Staff Engineer – NVMe SSD Firmware Validation

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To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period.

Advancing the World’s Technology Together

Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future.

We believe innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We’re dedicated to empowering people to be their true selves. Together, we’re building a better tomorrow for our employees, customers, partners, and communities.

What You’ll Do

• Validation strategy: Lead end-to-end functional validation for NVMe SSDs. Define black-box test methodologies, validation plans, coverage metrics, and release-readiness criteria for current and next-generation products, covering quality, reliability, interoperability, and standards compliance.
• Protocol compliance: Ensure adherence to NVM Express and PCI-SIG specifications across NVMe, PCIe, NVMe-MI, and sideband management interfaces.
• NVMe-MI and sideband testing: Define and implement coverage for out-of-band management, management commands, discovery and enumeration, health monitoring, telemetry, and error handling, scoped to product requirements.
• PCIe validation: Lead testing of link training and initialization, link-state transitions, reset and recovery, power management, error injection and handling, and interoperability across supported configurations.
• Failure analysis and debug: Work with firmware, hardware, silicon, platform, and system validation teams to reproduce failures, design experiments, find root causes, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Field feedback loop: Analyze customer-reported issues, field failures, and OEM escalations to find systemic coverage gaps. Turn them into regression tests, better methodologies, and preventive quality measures.
• Technical leadership: Guide automation and validation teams in developing, integrating, and maintaining scalable automated test suites within existing frameworks.

What You Bring

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience, or an MS with 13+ years OR PhD with 10+ Years.
• Extensive hands-on experience in NVMe SSD functional validation, protocol testing, system-level qualification, and device debugging.
• Strong knowledge of NVMe, PCIe, NVMe-MI, and sideband interfaces, and the ability to turn specifications into comprehensive test plans.
• Proven expertise in black-box test design, including protocol corner cases, negative and fault-injection tests, and broad regression coverage.
• Strong Python, Bash, and Linux shell scripting skills for test development, automation, and debug.
• Deep experience debugging SSD, firmware, and protocol failures using logs, traces, protocol analyzers, and system diagnostics.
• Track record of leading technical projects, influencing decisions across teams, driving root-cause analysis, and delivering with minimal supervision.

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