Technologist, Firmware Verification Engineering

Company Description

At Western Digital, we are on a mission to unlock the potential of data so people, companies and organizations everywhere can create what’s next. To fulfill our vision, we are always on the lookout for potential team members who share our passion for solving problems to empower others.

When you join Western Digital, you join a legacy more than 50 years in the making. Across our Western Digital®, SanDisk®, SanDisk® Professional, WD® and WD_BLACK™ brands, we have brought some of the most storied advancements in memory and data storage technology to market—and our best, most innovative work is yet to come.

From energizing gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Job Description

WD NVMe SSD products must be validated in house to assure that products shipped will meet OEM quality requirements.  We need an experienced and expert firmware validation engineer to understand NVMe SSD’s system design and firmware algorithms in order to create a firmware design verification plan and implement them in modern object oriented languages.

• Technically lead group of engineers on NVMe Client SSD Validation.
• Technically drive and motivate the engineers to achieve the efficiency in test development , code quality, validation coverage enhancements.
• Identify future validation strategy including defining validation infrastructure and validation methodology.
• Work with cross functional teams like Architecture design, Firmware development , product development team and represent firmware validation function.
• Work with customer facing team to understand field bugs and lead the team to enhance the validation coverage.
• Collaborate with software tools team and identify validation framework and automation enhancements.

Qualifications

Technical and analytical skills required

• In depth understanding of firmware algorithms used in any NAND Flash based storage devices SSD, mobile flash etc. .
• Knowledge in Host protocols like PCIe, NVMe, NAND Flash memory technology
• Experienced and familiar with firmware or embedded software development, Integration and validation
• Test coverage methods for real-time embedded systems, especially storage systems and/or NAND storage
• Able to methodically root cause complex failure mechanism
• Strong programming knowledge & debugging skills in Python, C and C++.

• Soft skills, Excellent written and verbal skills, be a Team player
• Able to develop key relationships
• Able to elect requirements from all stakeholders
• Be able to work in pressure for quick resolution and delivery.

 Experience required

• Minimum BS + 6-8 years or  MS + 5-7 years in storage related segments
• Worked with international teams

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here: Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

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