About the Role
<p><strong>Job Description: </strong><br />
• Develop front-end firmware features necessary to meet the product specification and customer requirements. </p>
<p>• Develop and modify existing firmware for SSD product requirements following PCIe and NVMe protocols. </p>
<p>• Debug host interface related problems encountered during internal or customer firmware testing. </p>
<p>• Perform root cause analysis and make appropriate changes to correct the problem. </p>
<p>• Work directly with hardware designers to efficiently resolve customer issues.<br />
• Working with customers to manage SSD debug and qualification requirements in collaboration with SMI Engineering Teams, driving technical design-in/-win, and debug hardware, firmware, and other platform-related barriers to adoption.<br />
•with customers and internal platform partners to resolve product issues and leverage those learning to shape future product (controller / Firmware) definition. </p>
<p>• Evangelizes technical benefits of SMI Enterprise controllers and various business models at the platform level; creates preference for SMI products within the platform; enables customer and end-user adoption of solutions; and supports ecosystem and tools enabling to drive controller solution adoption<br />
• Advocating technical customer needs to internal stakeholders </p>
<p>• Driving internal teams to deliver to customer expectations </p>
<p>• Participates in customers meetings and presentations, acting as technical adviser, consultant, analyst, and program manager for customer technical interactions in collaboration with SMI PM teams </p>
<p>• The AE will work closely with customers and partners to establish strong relationships that deliver results and team business objectives in the data center / enterprise segments </p>
<p><strong>Minimum Requirements: </strong></p>
<p>• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields. </p>
<p>• At least 3 years work experience in each of the following: </p>
<p>• Software/firmware applications engineering </p>
<p>• Experience in SSD controller/firmware architecture </p>
<p>• Experience with PCIe and NVMe protocols in firmware development and debugging, including but not limited to host reset, power management, namespace, MSI-X, SMBus, ARP, NVMe commands etc.</p>
<p>• Experience in analyzing PCIe protocol traces to identify the root cause for front end issues. </p>
<p>• Experience in the storage industry in SSD, HDD, storage systems, or a related technology. </p>
<p>• Strong experience in C/C++ programming and data structure </p>
<p>• Hands on experience with JTAG/ICE debuggers </p>
<p>• Experience with version control software like Git. </p>
<p>• Competent to work independently as well as in a small team collaboration environment. </p>
<p>• Must be willing to learn fast and execute as a team player. </p>
<p>• Good oral, written and presentation skills for communication and </p>
<p>documentation. </p>
<p>• Ability to work independently with a minimum of day-to-day supervision. </p>
<p>• The ability to operate logic analyzer, oscilloscope and bus protocol analyzer is valuable. </p>
<p>• Experience with hardware peripherals, features, and development environments is also valuable. </p>
<p>• Compute and/or Storage System hardware and/or software using both Windows and Linux based operating systems in the data center/enterprise. </p>
<p>• HDD/SSD systems/protocols and/or SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe). </p>
<p>• Familiarity with Datacenter architecture and interfaces, PCIe Switches, RAID controllers, HBAs, Expanders, and JBODs/JBOFs. </p>
<p>• Knowledge of SSD hardware and firmware architecture. </p>
<p>• Microsoft and Linux datacenter OS debug experience. </p>
<p>• Fluent in reading and writing Mandarin preferred. </p>
<p>Benefits, Rewards and Culture </p>
<p>Employees are eligible to be recognized in the following ways: </p>
<p>• Highly competitive salaries differentiated by performance </p>
<p>• Annual merit increases </p>
<p>• RSU for eligible employees </p>
<p>• Year-end bonus </p>
<p>• Invention and Patent Awards </p>
<p>• 401(k) Employer Matching </p>
<p>• Length of Service Awards </p>
<p>• We offer comprehensive health insurance plans for eligible employees and dependent</p>
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Security Clearance Required: No<br />
Visa Candidate Considered: No<br />
<strong>Compensation</strong><br />
Base Salary - USD $150,000 to $200,000