Senior Embedded Software Engineer

About our group:

Seagate is a global leader in mass-capacity data storage, helping organizations and people around the world create, protect, and unlock the value of their data. With over 45 years of technology leadership, Seagate delivers trusted storage solutions for Cloud, Enterprise, Edge, and Consumer markets, powering the infrastructure behind AI, digital transformation, and the world’s growing data economy.

Our Software Engineering organization develops embedded software for Seagate storage products, combining strong software fundamentals with close-to-hardware design to deliver reliable, high-performance product behavior.

We are currently recruiting for multiple openings within this role.

About the role - you will:

Design, implement, and integrate embedded software changes in C/C++ that improve reliability, performance, manufacturability, and product readiness for assigned storage platform features or components.

Apply strong computer science fundamentals, modular design, clear interfaces, and testable implementation practices to deliver maintainable software across products and releases.

Investigate and resolve product development issues involving embedded software, hardware interactions, firmware interfaces, operating environments, and storage system behavior.

Support technical closure of defects and integration issues from reproduction and root cause analysis through corrective action, validation support, risk awareness, and stakeholder communication.

Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, debug strategy, and defect prevention practices to improve software quality and team execution.

Share domain knowledge, provide informal guidance to less experienced engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to reach practical, high-quality technical decisions.

About you:

You build reliable, embedded software that is understandable, testable, extensible, and maintainable over multiple product releases.

You understand how software interacts with hardware, operating systems, storage architecture, and product behavior, and you use that understanding to make sound engineering tradeoffs.

You are comfortable working through technical ambiguity, breaking down problems, and communicating clear analysis, options, and execution plans.

You take ownership of assigned work, recognize related product and quality risks, and look for practical ways to improve software practices, tools, and team effectiveness.

Your experience includes:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering related field (i.e. Computer Science or related technical field) and 5+ years of experience or master’s degree in the same and 3+ years’ experience or PhD and 0+ years’ experience or equivalent experience and education.

Strong foundation in operating systems, concurrency, memory management, data structures, algorithms, and computer architecture, with proficiency developing embedded software in C/C++.Experience debugging embedded, firmware, or system-level issues using structured root-cause analysis, instrumentation, logs, lab tools, and cross-functional collaboration.

Experience contributing to design, implementation, integration, validation support, and release readiness in a hardware-dependent software environment.

You might also have:

Experience with embedded operating systems, device drivers, storage systems, real-time software, low-level platform software, firmware interfaces, or hardware bring-up.

Experience contributing to modular design, interface definition, test strategy, build systems, CI/CD, static analysis, or software quality tools.

Knowledge of HDD devices, storage protocols, system-level performance analysis, reliability considerations, failure modes, or storage subsystem behavior.

Experience sharing technical knowledge,…