Senior FW Engineer - Pathfinding

Company Description

Join a multibillion-dollar global company that brings together amazing technology, people, and operational scale to become a powerhouse in the memory industry. Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California, Solidigm combines elements of an established, successful technology company with the spirit, agility, and entrepreneurial mindset of a start-up. In addition to the U.S. headquarters and other facilities in the U.S., the company has international presence in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Solidigm will continue to lead the world in innovating new Memory technologies with aspirations to be the #1 NAND memory company in the world. At Solidigm, we view problems as opportunities to define innovative solutions that hold the power to change the world and unleash the potential technological needs that the future holds. At Solidigm, we are One Team that fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that embraces individual uniqueness and empowers us to bring our best selves to deliver excellence in support of Solidigm's vision and mission to be the go-to partner for optimized data storage solutions. You can be part of the takeoff of an innovative business that develops cutting-edge products, delivers strong business value for customers, provides an engaging workplace for its employees, and serves a greater impact on the world. This is a golden opportunity for the right applicant to join us and help design, build, and lead Solidigm. We want a diverse team of dedicated professionals who will not just be Solidigm team members but contribute to how we shape the future of the organization. We are seeking applicants who will grow and thrive in our culture; be customer inspired, trusting, innovative, team-oriented, inclusive, results driven, collaborative, passionate, and flexible.

Job Description

Senior FW Engineering role working in the development of new prototypes to demonstrate novel features and functions in technology innovation pathfinding.

Job Description: Senior Firmware Engineer - Pathfinding

You can be part of the takeoff of a fast-growing business that develops cutting-edge products, delivers strong business value for customers, provides an engaging workplace for its employees, and serves a greater impact on the world. Come join our Data Center Engineering Team and work on one of the most advanced 3D-NAND and SSD technology portfolios in the world. As the global leader in the semiconductor industry, Solidigm possesses many industry-leading SSD technologies including the most capable Quadruple Level Cell (QLC) NAND Flash products.

The Storage Pathfinding team in the Data Center Engineering (DCE) group of Solidigm is seeking a Senior Firmware (FW) engineer for the development of novel Solid State Drive (SSD) innovation prototypes to demonstrate high-impact features and functions.  In this position, you will be doing independent problem-solving and innovative thinking to tackle complex technical challenges, where specific solutions to problems are often unknown.  The work requires flexibility and comfort with ambiguity, while seeking to develop specific optimized approaches. Depending on candidate, scope of role could also include system-level design modeling, systems integration, algorithm modeling, benchmarking implementation, and/or digital signal processing.   Experience in areas beyond storage could also be beneficial to this role such as AI, computing, and storage system architecture, operating systems, storage software architecture, networking, processing, accelerators, or memory. 

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop embedded software for environments with constrained timing and memory resources, with a focus on prototyping proofs of concepts for new storage innovations.
• Design and implement reusable code, debug and root-cause issues, and validate FW architecture and implementations.
• Create novel approaches for firmware algorithms and mechanisms related to new drive features such as Flash Translation Layer (FTL)/mapping strategies, Garbage Collection/Workload optimization, Performance Quality of Service and data placement. 
• Perform unit and integration testing as needed to prove code viability and collaborate with architects and IP leads to define FW scope and implementation details aligned with delivery milestones.
• Assist in creating appropriate metrics for evaluating new functions and collect data to inform next directions for FW architecture and implementation.
• Provide analysis on tradeoffs between technical approaches to solving new problems and make recommendations based on collected data.

Minimum Requirements:

7+ years of experience in the following areas:

• Software or firmware development, integration and validation experience in an embedded systems environment with programming i