Senior Staff Engineer - Product validation - Milpitas, United States
Originally posted 10 September 2026 by the employer.
Lead validation and interoperability efforts for NVMe SSD products.
About the role
This role involves leading complex, cross-platform system validation and interoperability efforts for NVMe SSD products. It focuses on driving engineering excellence across adjacent teams and designing robust test architectures.
What you'll do
- Lead system integration strategy for functional, stress, and interoperability validation.
- Develop scalable automation for system-level workflows, including NVMe functional tests, reset/boot flows, and PCIe behaviors.
- Drive system-level triage by identifying failure domains and accelerating root-cause isolation.
- Collaborate across firmware, hardware, validation, tools, and architecture to inform design and release decisions.
- Enhance productivity by improving test coverage efficiency and optimizing platform readiness.
- Introduce new methodologies for system interop, workload generation, stress scenarios, and validation quality gating.
What you'll need
- BS/MS in EE/CE/CS or related field with 10+ years in SSD validation, platform integration, or storage system engineering.
- Deep expertise in NVMe command/admin flows, queues, error-recovery, PCIe link behavior, LTSSM, training, ASPM, surprise/hot removal, Linux (blk-mq, IO scheduler, kern logs) and Windows storage paths.
- Robust hands-on experience with fio, multi-threaded stress patterns, and high-complexity system workloads.
- Automation proficiency with Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
Nice to have
- Prior ownership of system-level integration or interop validation for enterprise/cloud SSDs or server platforms.
- Knowledge of FTDC frameworks, telemetry analysis, automated RCA workflows, or system-level coverage design.
- Familiarity with validation KPIs such as DPPM, escape metrics, and system-level coverage modeling.
- Experience debugging across firmware, PCIe electrical, drivers, OS internals, and system microcode interactions.
Skills: NVMe SSD validation, system integration, PCIe link behavior, Linux storage paths, Python automation
This role has been open 36 days — below the 42-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
409
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Median days open
42 d
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Median salary
$167k
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| Metric | SanDisk | All employers we track in this specialty (409 roles · 61 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 409 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 36 | 2218 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 42 d (+9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $167k |
Skills observed across this category: NVMe SSD validation, system integration, PCIe link behavior, Linux storage paths, Python automation
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 39 open roles · median 39 d
- Qualcomm · 36 open roles · median 28 d
- NVIDIA · 26 open roles · median 23 d
- Microchip Technology · 22 open roles · median 68 d
- Graphcore · 20 open roles · median 121 d
How we counted: 409 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 61 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.