SSD Qualification Engineer, Systems Engineering
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are
fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead
with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest
team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the
world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if youre ready
to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join
us. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE The FlashArray 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 FlashArray 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. Most
recently, we extended the value of our FlashArray capabilities into
the cloud with CloudSnap and Cloud Block Store for AWS. These new
innovations enable our customers to leverage the agility of the
public cloud for both traditional IT and cloud-native applications.
What You Will Be Doing You’ll be actively engaged in all phases of
the product development cycle with a focus on demonstrating
capabilities of PURE’s internally designed SSDs. As part of the
drive qualification group, your leadership in areas of test,
troubleshooting, assessments of results and team engagement will be
utilized to drive progress with qualification efforts. An overview
of your responsibilities includes; • Manage drive qualification,
which includes executing tests, driving analysis of issues, and
guiding expectations based on testing results o Organize testing
plans for a given drive o Develop summaries of your expectations
and present results in various forums o Drive issues to resolution
– perform initial failure analysis, analyze system for possible
correlation, engage with various experts as needed and drive
progress through closure • Drive improvements in the qualification
processes as you observe execution o Brainstorm methods and
procedures to evolve our team’s effectiveness o Proactively
define/develop new SSD qualification tests, covering new drive
features, requirements, exposure to field issues etc. o Use your
strong scripting language skills to develop and automate tests and
minimize qualification testing cycles • Participate in various team
activities aimed at developing testing process, • Perceived as
highly skilled in storage interface protocols (NVMe, SAS and SATA)
• Perceived as highly skilled in use of PCIe/SAS/SATA Bus
analyzers, trace capture and trace analysis. What You Bring To The
Team • 5 years in SSD/HDD design, development and qualification. (8
preferred). • B.S. Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
(M.S. preferred). • Experience working at enterprise data storage
system, SSD companies or related component vendors • Strong
knowledge of Flash technologies/roadmaps, SSD controllers, drive FW
• Strong knowledge of hardware design, storage architectures and
storage interfaces. • Experience with failure modes of flash-based
devices. • Strong ability to devise, implement, automate and refine
the qualification methods utilizing your scripting skills. •
Ability to qualify drives across a wide spectrum, from electrical
to protocol to functional levels • Highly self-motivated with the
ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, technical development
environment. • Detail oriented, analytical, process savvy, and
customer focused yet flexible and adaptable to business needs. •
Experience working with cross-functional teams • Ability to work
collaboratively across various levels • Ability to operate in a
fast paced changing business environment • Strong verbal and
written communication skills • Adaptable - undertake a variety of
tasks willingly. Ability to switch from complex to routine tasks
when required. • Decisive - ability to make decisions quickly when
faced with multiple options. • Integrity - act with personal
integrity at all times. • Professional - Confront problems, propose
solutions and take ownership through to resolution. Have a positive
can-do approach to work. • Knowledge/experience with Jenkins & GIT
is a plus. • SSD firmware development experience is a plus. •
Strong hardware design skills are a plus. • We are primarily an
in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work
from the Santa Clara, CA office in compliance with Pure’s policies,
unless you are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave.
Keywords: , Palo Alto , SSD Qualification Engineer, Systems Engineering, Engineering , Santa Clara, California
