Senior Firmware Engineer

Job Description

Job Description:

• Develop front end firmware features necessary to meet the product specification and customer requirements.
• Develop and modify existing firmware for SSD product requirements following PCIe and NVMe protocols.
• Debug host interface related problems encountered during internal or customer firmware testing.
• Perform root cause analysis and make appropriate changes to correct the problem.
• Work directly with hardware designers to efficiently resolve customer issues.
• 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.
• Interfacing with customers and internal platform partners to resolve product issues and leverage those learning to shape future product (controller / Firmware) definition.
• 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
• Advocating technical customer needs to internal stakeholders
• Driving internal teams to deliver to customer expectations
• 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
• 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

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• At least 3 years work experience in each of the following
• Software/firmware applications engineerin
• Experience in SSD controller/firmware architectur
• 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
• Experience in analyzing PCIe protocol traces to identify the root cause for front end issues
• Experience in the storage industry in SSD, HDD, storage systems, or a related technology
• Strong experience in C/C++ programming and data structur
• Hands-on experience with JTAG/ICE debugger
• Experience with version control software like Git
• Competent to work independently as well as in a small team collaboration environment
• Must be willing to learn fast and execute as a team player
• Good oral, written and presentation skills for communication and documentation
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of day-to-day supervision
• The ability to operate logic analyzer, oscilloscope and bus protocol analyzer is valuable
• Experience with hardware peripherals, features, and development environments is also valuable
• .Compute and/or Storage System hardware and/or software using both Windows and Linux-based operating systems in the data center/enterprise
• .HDD/SSD systems/protocols and/or SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe)
• .Familiarity with Datacenter architecture and interfaces, PCIe Switches, RAID controllers, HBAs, Expanders, and JBODs/JBOFs
• Knowledge of SSD hardware and firmware architecture
• Microsoft and Linux datacenter OS debug experience
• Fluent in reading and writing Mandarin preferred

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