Principal Engineer, Storage Product Standards

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Please Note
To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period.

Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future.

Location:

Daily onsite presence at our San Jose headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy with 10% of domestic travel.

Reports to:

VP, Technical Marketing

• Technical Contribution:
  Propose, draft, and review technical specifications and proposals within NVMe and OCP working groups.
• Ecosystem Leadership:
  Act as a premier thought leader and key influencer within the broader storage community, serving in high-profile leadership positions (e.g., Committee Chair, Board Member, or Workgroup Lead) within NVMe, OCP, or SNIA boards.
• Industry Influence:
  Leverage an established technical network and a proven track record of influence within the storage industry to accelerate the adoption of favorable standards.
• Strategic Representation:
  Own technical voting seats and actively influence core NVMe and OCP committees to align industry standards with Samsung's core product capabilities, and technological strengths.
• IP and Innovation:
  Identify, draft, and secure patents for proprietary storage technologies during the early phases of the standardization process to protect Samsung's intellectual property.
• Samsung Product Alignment:
  Translate specific hyperscaler requirements—such as Microsoft’s Azure Cloud SSD specifications and Meta’s platform requirements—into actionable features for Samsung’s enterprise SSD controller and firmware architectures.
• Technology Roadmap Mapping:
  Analyze emerging standards and translate them into direct, actionable product requirements for internal R&D teams.
• Hyperscale-Samsung
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Jointly develop next-generation storage architectures (e.g., custom form factors like E1.S/E3, or advanced features like FDP) directly with architects from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Meta, and Samsung's product planning units.
• SNIA Standards Implementation:
  Collaborate SNIA specification initiative into Samsung SSD management interfaces for unified datacenter storage orchestration.
• Compliance & Integration:
  Partner with to ensure hardware and firmware align strictly with standard OCP compliance tests and specific cloud vendor qualification suites.
• Competitive Intelligence:
  Monitor, evaluate, and report on competitor strategies, technical directions, and voting patterns within standardization committees.
• Outbound Technical Marketing and Customer
  
  Education:
  
  Create customer-facing technical whitepapers, solution briefs, and education materials for Eco/Standard activities. Build thought-leadership materials similar to leading ecosystem education efforts by major competitors.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field with 20+ years experience or a Master’s Degree with 18+ years experience or a Ph.D. with 15+ years experience
• Minimum of 10+ years of direct experience in the storage industry, including foundational hands-on experience with legacy HDD technology and systems alongside modern NAND flash and SSD development.
• Verified track record of strategic influence, technical contributions, or…