1 day ago
Rancho Cordova, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$171k - $273k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide cross-domain system and product-level technical leadership for SSD firmware architecture.
- Drive architectural requirements, feature assessments, architecture scoping, and solutions for new customer requests.
- Lead, develop, review, and document product source code in C and C++.
- Analyze, architect, and develop low-level firmware according to internal and customer specifications.
- Model algorithms, benchmark implementations, and perform unit- and system-level testing, failure analysis, and debugging.
- Develop firmware, system, operating-system, and device architectures in partnership with hardware and ASIC design teams.
- Translate product requirements into development and validation plans and coordinate priorities across engineering stakeholders.
- Establish technical direction, coding standards, development processes, and firmware technology roadmaps across engineering teams.
- Engage strategic customers to translate requirements into architectural solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical authority across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of software or firmware development experience in embedded systems using C or C++, including at least 8 years in SSD firmware architecture or NAND flash storage systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across ASIC, hardware, firmware, validation, product engineering, manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams.
- Expertise in FTL, QoS, wear leveling, garbage collection, bad block management, ECC/error recovery, power-loss protection, and NAND flash management.
- Preferred experience with performance, reliability, power, cost, and scalability tradeoffs in architecture decisions.
- Preferred expertise in enterprise storage interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, NVMe, and NVMe-MI.
- Preferred experience with SSD security technologies including TCG Opal, IEEE 1667, ESSC, AES, Secure Boot, and firmware authentication.
- Preferred experience with controller ASIC and hardware architecture teams, emerging storage technologies, and firmware technology roadmaps.
- Preferred experience with QLC/PLC NAND, Zoned Namespaces, Computational Storage, CXL, and NVMe over Fabrics.
- Preferred understanding of software development lifecycle, automated validation, and release management for embedded firmware.
- Strong written, presentation, communication, influencing, multitasking, and leadership 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 matching on eligible 401(k) contributions.
- Hybrid work arrangement 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.