1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define validation strategies, test methodologies, automation frameworks, test architectures, qualification criteria, and coverage plans for enterprise SSD firmware.
- Architect Feature Validation Test coverage across host interface, FTL, NAND management, error handling and recovery, power-loss protection, reliability, endurance, garbage collection, wear leveling, bad-block management, and error injection.
- Translate product requirements and customer use cases into scalable validation architectures, test plans, coverage matrices, and automation frameworks.
- Develop validation methodologies, test frameworks, tools, automated reporting systems, and quality dashboards to improve coverage, repeatability, and execution efficiency.
- Drive feature-level risk assessments, requirements traceability, coverage analysis, validation completeness, and qualification sign-off.
- Lead root-cause investigations using protocol captures, firmware logs, telemetry, system traces, and performance metrics.
- Drive complex issues to closure with Firmware, ASIC, Hardware, Systems, Reliability, and Customer Engineering teams.
- Own and scale test infrastructure for next-generation NAND technologies and accelerate qualification cycles.
- Collaborate with architecture, firmware, systems, product management, quality, and hyperscale/datacenter customers throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead major cross-functional initiatives, influence product roadmaps, mentor engineers, and provide technical leadership across validation teams.
Requirements
- 14+ years of experience in embedded firmware development or validation, or 10+ years of SSD firmware verification experience.
- Strong firmware and hardware debugging experience, including hands-on ownership of complex issue resolution.
- Strong knowledge of NVMe, PCIe, cloud SSD, OCP, datacenter SSD, SSD, NAND, and end-to-end storage-stack specifications and architectures.
- Experience defining test strategies, qualification methodologies, validation plans, coverage models, defect-escape prevention processes, and validation sign-off criteria.
- Extensive experience architecting Feature Validation Test coverage for garbage collection, wear leveling, bad-block management, and error injection.
- Experience developing test code and automation frameworks in Python.
- Experience validating SSD firmware and storage solutions for datacenter, enterprise, AI compute, and hyperscale environments.
- Strong understanding of interactions among CPU, memory, PCIe, NVMe, drivers, operating systems, firmware, virtualization layers, and AI accelerators.
- Strong Windows and Linux operating-system debugging skills.
- Experience building test frameworks, automated reporting systems, quality dashboards, and validation solutions integrated with CI/CD.
- Experience with AI infrastructure platforms, GPU-attached storage environments, and large-scale datacenter storage validation is highly desirable.
- Experience developing validation plans for AI-centric workloads such as model training, checkpointing, KV cache, inference, and agentic AI workloads is desirable.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electronics engineering, or equivalent.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, planning, execution, problem-solving, analytical, project-management, mentoring, quality, risk-mitigation, and delivery skills.
- Ability to use AI-assisted tools for code generation, test creation, log analysis, root-cause identification, defect triage, coverage analysis, and automated report generation.
Benefits
- The position is based in Bengaluru, India.
- Sandisk is committed to an inclusive workplace and provides accommodation support for applicants with disabilities.
About Sandisk
Sandisk designs and sells flash-based storage for consumers, device makers, and enterprises, including memory cards, USB drives, solid-state drives, and embedded storage. Products are sold through retail and OEM channels under the SanDisk brand, with enterprise offerings for servers and datacenters. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, Sandisk operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital following its 2016 acquisition.