Senior Engineer, SSD Qualification
San Jose · SSI San Jose · USD 138,000-206,000 · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 2, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- San Jose · SSI San Jose
- Salary
- USD 138,000-206,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a Senior Engineer for SSD Qualification to execute enterprise SSD qualifications in customer systems.
- The role involves communicating with team leads, coordinating with local and remote teams, and triaging test failures.
- The position is based in San Jose with a daily onsite presence required.
Responsibilities
- Execution of enterprise SSD qualifications in customer systems.
- Communicate with team lead to understand qualification processes and test plans, report status of qualifications, and manage customer expectations.
- Coordinate with internal team and customer test engineers to execute qual plans as per schedule.
- Triage test failures and do a first level FA, designing and executing experiments to root cause defects and verify fixes.
- Provide feedback to functional test teams on issues seen in customer quals to better functional test coverage.
- Contribute in triaging customer field issues and provide support for timely resolution of customer issues.
- Identify automation opportunities and help Automation team to continue to improve and add to the existing framework.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or related technical field with 5+ years of system level testing or development of enterprise servers and enterprise storage systems experience or MS with 3+ years preferred.
- Experience with at least 1 storage protocol like NVMe/PCIe, SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel
- Familiar with one of protocol analyzers like LeCroy, SerialTek, or Xgig System or device level performance analysis
- Proficiency in server operating systems especially system debug tools such as system logs.
- Knowledge of enterprise storage/server system technologies.
- Expertise in storage test tools such as performance benchmarks, IO stress tools, protocol certifications, Test execution and bug management tools.
- Scripting experience such as in Perl, Shell or Python
Preferred qualifications
- MS with 3+ years preferred
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/401k
- Charitable giving match
- 4+ weeks of paid time off a year plus holidays and sick leave
- Stipend for fertility care or adoption
- Medical travel support
- Virtual vet care
- On-demand apps and free confidential therapy sessions
- Onsite Café and gym, plus virtual classes
Workplace
- Daily onsite presence at San Jose headquarters in alignment with Flexible Work policy
Skills
- NVMe
- PCIe
- SAS
- SATA
- Fibre Channel
- LeCroy
- SerialTek
- Xgig System
- Perl
- Shell
- Python
