1 day ago
Longmont, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$154k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide cross-domain system and product-level technical leadership for SSD firmware architecture.
- Drive architectural requirements, feature assessments, and high-level scoping for customer requests and new products.
- Lead, develop, review, and document product source code in C/C++.
- Analyze, architect, and develop firmware according to internal and customer specifications.
- Develop low-level firmware, operating-system and device architectures in partnership with hardware and ASIC design teams.
- Perform unit and system-level testing, failure analysis, debugging, and development-phase validation.
- Translate product requirements into development and validation plans with project stakeholders.
- Coordinate priorities and engineering activities to achieve committed milestones.
- Drive architecture decisions involving performance, reliability, power, cost, and scalability tradeoffs.
- Develop firmware technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging storage technologies.
- Establish firmware architecture, coding standards, development processes, and technical direction across engineering teams.
- Engage strategic customers to translate requirements into architectural solutions and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of software or firmware development experience in embedded systems using C/C++, including 8+ years in SSD firmware architecture or NAND flash storage systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across cross-functional ASIC, hardware, firmware, validation, product engineering, and manufacturing teams.
- Expertise in SSD firmware technologies including FTL, QoS, wear leveling, garbage collection, bad block management, ECC/error recovery, power-loss protection, and NAND flash management.
- Experience with enterprise storage interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, NVMe, and NVMe-MI.
- Experience with SSD security technologies such as TCG Opal, IEEE 1667, ESSC, AES, Secure Boot, and firmware authentication.
- Experience working with controller ASIC and hardware architecture teams on next-generation product capabilities.
- Experience with QLC/PLC NAND, Zoned Namespaces, Computational Storage, CXL, and NVMe over Fabrics is preferred.
- Experience with software development lifecycle, CI/CD, automated validation, and embedded-firmware release management.
- Strong written, presentation, communication, influencing, leadership, multitasking, and customer-engagement skills.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in restricted stock unit, restricted cash unit, and cash bonus programs.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, supplemental life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, and company-matched 401(k) contributions.
- Hybrid role based in Rancho Cordova, California, or Longmont, Colorado.
About Solidigm
Solidigm designs and manufactures NAND flash memory and solid-state drives for data center, enterprise, and client computing markets. Its portfolio spans high-capacity and high-endurance SSDs with supporting firmware/software sold to OEMs and hyperscale cloud providers. Formed in 2021 from Intel’s NAND business, Solidigm operates as a U.S. subsidiary of SK hynix, with global R&D developing SoCs and controllers for its drives.