4 hours ago
Rancho Cordova, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$129k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, review, document, and maintain product source code in C/C++.
- Analyze and develop firmware according to internal and customer specifications.
- Perform unit- and system-level testing, failure analysis, and debugging during development and validation.
- Develop low-level firmware, operating systems, device architectures, and system architectures with hardware and ASIC design teams.
- Work across firmware disciplines throughout the SSD architecture.
- Translate product requirements into development and validation plans with project stakeholders.
- Coordinate priorities and activities with engineering stakeholders to meet committed milestones.
- Design and improve NAND media-management algorithms for performance, endurance, reliability, and quality of service.
- Analyze drive-level performance and telemetry data to identify bottlenecks and implement firmware or media-management improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience developing, validating, or optimizing embedded firmware for SSDs or other NAND flash-based storage products.
- Experience with SSD architecture and standards or interfaces including NVMe, PCIe, NAND interfaces, error correction, and flash translation layer design.
- Experience debugging and root-causing complex firmware issues on pre-production and production hardware, including failure triage and log and telemetry analysis.
- Experience developing C/C++ in embedded environments using tools such as Git, Python, and C/C++ debuggers.
- Preferred experience with NAND media management, including data placement, wear leveling, garbage collection, defect management, and endurance or reliability optimization.
- Preferred experience designing and debugging algorithms that improve latency, throughput, and performance consistency under sustained workloads.
- Preferred experience bringing up, characterizing, or qualifying new NAND generations and converting characterization results into firmware policy improvements.
- Excellent written, presentation, communication, interpersonal, teamwork, multitasking, influence, and leadership skills.
Benefits
- Fully onsite in Rancho Cordova, California, with attendance in the office five days per week.
- Eligible to participate in restricted stock unit, restricted cash unit, and cash bonus programs.
- Medical, dental, vision, supplemental life and AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Company match on eligible 401(k) plan contributions.
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.