Hardware Design Engineer, Platform Engineering

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For nine straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE…

The Pure Engineering Team builds the industry’s most innovative, high-performance, and highly available portfolio of products that are designed for the most demanding mission critical applications.  While we deliver a hardware storage array, over 90% of our engineering staff are software engineers. Our customers are the most important part of our business and they love FlashBlade for its simplicity of management, the constant flow of new and exciting upgrades, and ability to live on the cutting edge of technology while never taking downtime, ever. These new innovations enable our customers to leverage the agility of the public cloud for both traditional IT and cloud-native applications. 

• WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING...

  • Plan, implement, and co-develop HW design and qualification projects 
  • Participation in all phases of the product development cycle including design, documentation, eDVT, FA, and support for custom HW designs
  • Define, implement and automate HW validation and qualification tests
  • Review, Audit, and Validate reports from JDM partner and retest certain portions of the design
  • Ability to design and test small FPGA/CPLD projects
  • Write functional specifications (HW/System level), test plans and test reports
  • Perform schematic capture of designs
  • Analyze and review of device and system-level power, vendor selection (design), cooling, and electrical (SI) functionality
  • Improve design and qualification processes to enhance efficiency, consistency, and product robustness
  • Qualification of subsystems, including CPU complex, networking, power, etc.
  • Perform failure and root cause analysis activities in support of system hardening efforts and customer escalations
  • Work with diagnostics engineers by providing direction and reviewing test plans to ensure proper coverage
  • Work closely with other team members and providing support on cross functional projects as needed
  • Help contribute to creating a culture of quality by design
  
  

  WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

  • A degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (desired), with either:
  • Masters with 2+ years of professional work experience.
  • Bachelors with 4+ years of professional work experience
  • Experience working at enterprise hardware companies preferred (Storage, Server, Networking)
  • Knowledge of hardware design, x86 architectures and interfaces.
  • Ability to qualify x86 hardware at the electrical, SI, protocol and functional levels
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, Mfg. Test, and support to deliver high quality products to our customers
  • Strong knowledge of selecting x86 subcomponents, SSD’s, AC/DC Power supplies, and discrete power circuits
  • Ability to architect or assist in architecting complex systems, involving compute, storage and I/O
  • Experience with Verilog, System Verilog and simulation tools
  • Experience with HW design tools (i.e. Schematic capture tools, Allegro, Signal integrity tools (HyperLynx, etc))
  • Experience implementing and automating HW qualification processes
  • Experience with scripting languages (i.e. Python, BASH, EXPECT, etc) and test development
  • Experience with High Speed Oscillo