Principal Engineer, Firmware Verification Engineering

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• 14+ years of experience in Embedded Firmware development/validation or 10+ years of SSD FW Verification with strong firmware and hardware debugging expertise.
• Strong hands-on experience in debugging and driving complex issues to closure
• Good understanding on NVMe and PCIe protocol including Cloud SSD specification
• Good understanding on SSD/NAND architecture
• Proven experience in defining test strategies, qualification methodologies, and validation plans covering: Host Interface layer (HIL), Flash Translation Layer (FTL), NAND Management, Error Handling and Recovery Flows, Power Loss Protection (PLP), Reliability and Endurance Validation
• Extensive experience architecting Feature Validation Test (FVT) coverage for Garbage collection, Wear levelling, Bad block management and Error injections
• Good to have experience in developing validation plans for AI-centric storage workloads including: Model Training, Checkpointing, KV Cache, Inference, Agentic AI Workloads
• Experience in test development and coding in Python

Who can apply

• Experience translating product requirements and customer use cases into scalable validation architectures, test plans, coverage matrices, and automation frameworks.
• Prior experience validating SSD firmware and storage solutions for Datacenter, Enterprise, AI Compute, and Hyperscale environments.
• Define, develop, and implement new validation methodologies, automation frameworks, and tools to improve test effectiveness, coverage, and execution efficiency.
• Drive feature-level risk assessments and ensure validation completeness through requirements traceability and coverage analysis.
• Collaborate with architecture, firmware, and system teams to influence product design for testability and quality.
• Lead root-cause investigations by analyzing protocol captures, firmware logs, telemetry data, system traces, and performance metrics.
• Drive critical issues to closure by interfacing with Firmware, ASIC, Hardware, Systems, Reliability, and Customer Engineering teams.
• Own and scale the test infrastructure, improving test repeatability and coverage to accelerate the qualification cycle for next-generation NAND technologies.

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