Staff Engineer - Product validation

Staff Engineer - Product Validation

We're looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to lead complex, cross-platform system validation and interoperability efforts for our next-generation NVMe SSD products. You will shape technical direction within the group, architect scalable validation strategies, and drive engineering excellence across adjacent teams (firmware, hardware, QA, tools/automation). This role combines deep technical expertise with hands-on leadership, designing robust test architectures, elevating standards, and mentoring engineers to deliver high-impact, customer-grade quality at scale.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead system integration strategy for functional, stress, and interoperability validation across diverse platforms and operating systems.
• Develop scalable automation for system-level workflows, including NVMe functional tests, reset/boot flows, PCIe behaviors, and telemetry/FTDC collection.
• Drive system-level triage by identifying failure domains, improving debug repeatability, and accelerating root-cause isolation.
• Collaborate across FW, HW, Validation, Tools, and Architecture to ensure system behaviors and issues inform design and release decisions.
• Enhance productivity by improving test coverage efficiency, reducing execution cycle time, and optimizing platform readiness.
• Introduce new methodologies for system interop, workload generation, stress scenarios, and validation quality gating.
• Mentor engineers, uplift technical practices, and strengthen system-level engineering rigor.

Required qualifications include:

• BS/MS in EE/CE/CS or related field with 10+ years in SSD validation, platform integration, or storage system engineering.
• Deep expertise in: NVMe command/admin flows, queues, error-recovery, PCIe link behavior, LTSSM, training, ASPM, surprise/hot removal, Linux (blk-mq, IO scheduler, kern logs) and Windows storage paths, server-class BIOS/UEFI, ACPI, power/thermal states, crash dump flows.
• Robust hands-on experience with fio, multi-threaded stress patterns, and high-complexity system workloads.
• Automation proficiency with Python (preferred), Bash, and Power Shell.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Prior ownership of system-level integration or interop validation for enterprise/cloud SSDs or server platforms.
• Knowledge of FTDC frameworks, telemetry analysis, automated RCA workflows, or system-level coverage design.
• Familiarity with validation KPIs such as DPPM, escape metrics, and system-level coverage modeling.
• Experience debugging across firmware, PCIe electrical, drivers, OS internals, and system microcode interactions.