Senior Staff Engineer – NVMe SSD Firmware Validation
Samsung Semiconductor9 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$189k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end functional validation for current and next-generation NVMe SSD products.
- Define black-box test methodologies, validation plans, coverage metrics, and release-readiness criteria.
- Validate compliance with NVM Express and PCI-SIG specifications across NVMe, PCIe, NVMe-MI, and sideband interfaces.
- Develop coverage for out-of-band management, discovery and enumeration, health monitoring, telemetry, management commands, and error handling.
- Lead PCIe testing for link training, initialization, link-state transitions, reset and recovery, power management, error injection, and interoperability.
- Reproduce failures, design experiments, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions with firmware, hardware, silicon, platform, and system validation teams.
- Analyze customer issues, field failures, and OEM escalations and convert coverage gaps into regression tests and preventive quality measures.
- Guide validation and automation teams in developing, integrating, and maintaining scalable automated test suites.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 13+ years, or a 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, with the ability to translate specifications into comprehensive test plans.
- Expertise in black-box test design, protocol corner cases, negative testing, fault injection, and broad regression coverage.
- Strong Python, Bash, and Linux shell scripting skills for test development, automation, and debugging.
- Deep experience debugging SSD, firmware, and protocol failures using logs, traces, protocol analyzers, and system diagnostics.
- Track record of leading technical projects, influencing cross-team decisions, driving root-cause analysis, and delivering with minimal supervision.
Benefits
- Daily onsite work at the San Jose, California office under the company’s flexible work policy.
- Base pay range of $189,000–$301,000 USD, plus incentive opportunities tied to individual and company performance.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Four or more weeks of paid time off annually, plus holidays and sick leave.
- Charitable giving match and community involvement opportunities.
- Fertility-care or adoption stipend, caregiver support, and medical travel support.
- On-demand emotional wellness apps and free confidential therapy sessions.
- Onsite café and gym, virtual fitness classes, and a flexible work environment.