NVMe/SSD Qualification Engineer, Systems Engineering

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

You’ll be actively engaged in all phases of the product development cycle with a focus on demonstrating capabilities of PURE’s internally designed SSDs.  As part of the drive qualification group, your leadership in areas of NVMe test, troubleshooting, and analysis of results will be utilized to drive progress with qualification efforts. 

• Participation in all phases of PURE’s DFM product development cycle with a specific focus on NVMe qualification, which includes executing tests, driving analysis of issues, and guiding expectations based on testing results
• Organize testing plans for a given drive
• Drive Qualification of NVMe SSDs across performance/endurance/reliability and compatibility metrics
• Develop summaries of your expectations and present results in various forums 
• Use your background in storage system validation or design to proactively identify, troubleshoot and communicate device failure modes.
• Drive issues to resolution – perform initial failure analysis, analyze system for possible correlation, engage with various experts as needed and drive progress through closure
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, marketing and support to introduce new storage devices and subsystems into production.
• Perform failure analysis and root cause analysis activities in support of system hardening efforts and customer escalations
• Drive improvements in the qualification processes as you observe execution 
• Brainstorm methods and procedures to evolve our team’s effectiveness
• Proactively define/develop new SSD qualification tests targeting NVMe features and functions, new requirements, exposure to field issues etc.
• Improve qualification processes that actively enhance efficiency, consistency, reporting and vendor relationships.
• Use your strong scripting language skills to develop and automate tests and minimize qualification testing cycles
• Use your strong scripting language skills for automating tests and shortening qualification cycles
• Participate in various team activities aimed at developing testing process, 
• Perceived as highly skilled in storage interface protocols (NVMe, SAS and SATA)
• Perceived as highly skilled in use of PCIe/SAS/SATA Bus analyzers, trace capture and trace analysis.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

• 5+ years in SSD/HDD design, development and qualification. (8+ preferred).
• B.S. Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (M.S. preferred).
• Experience working at enterprise data storage system, SSD companies or related component vendors
• Strong knowledge of Flash technologies/roadmaps, SSD controllers, drive FW
• Strong knowledge of hardware design, storage architectures and storage interfaces.
• Experience with failure modes of flash-based devices.
• Experience using NVMe CLI tools or similar and building scripts/tools around it for exhaustive testing
• Strong knowledge of PCIe/NVme, Firmware Architecture/Design in Solid State Drive (SSD) or similar storage domain.
• Good Hands-on Experience on Third Party Tools like - Lecroy, Drive Master, OakGate, etc., and Certification.
• Experience in a hardware testing/software testing validation lab for SSDs or Embedded industry segments
• Strong ability to devise, implement, automate and refine the qualification methods utilizing your scripting skills.
• Knowledge/experience with Jenkins & GIT is a plus.
• SSD firmware development experience is a plus.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, technical development environment.
• Detail oriented, analytical, process savvy, and customer focused yet flexible and adaptable to business needs.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams & effectively
• Collaborate across various levels
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Adaptable - undertake a variety of tasks willingly.  Ability to switch from complex to routine tasks when required.
• Decisive - ability to make decisions quickly when faced with multiple options.
• Integrity - act with personal integrity at all times.
• Professional - Confront problems, propose solutions and take ownership through to resolution.  Have a positive can-do approach to work.

You will be based in Santa Clara, CA. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 4 days a week. As outlined in Pure's Hybrid Work Policy, there will be variations over periods of time, depending on business need. The annual base salary range is: $163,000 – $246,000. Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations. This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events - check out purebenefits.com for more information.There is no application deadline and we accept applications on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.