Senior Staff SSD Debug Engineer - 2270

Work on development of debug firmware in C programming across the SSD firmware stack.

Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As an SSD Debug Engineer, your primary role is to triage and debug SSD drive failures for the data center SSD product line. This involves working on development of debug firmware in C programming across the SSD firmware stack.

What you'll do

• Perform root cause analysis for data center SSD failures on hyperscale server platforms.
• Drive cross-functional debug with firmware, platform, and customer teams.
• Analyze host and telemetry logs, correlate failures with firmware source code and hardware behavior.
• Work on development of debug firmware in C programming across the SSD firmware stack.
• Troubleshoot SSD performance issues and reduce tail latencies and improve IOPS and throughput.
• Create 8D/failure analysis reports and explain to the customer.

What you'll need

• BS degree in computer engineering or equivalent field with minimum 10 years of experience, or MS degree with minimum 8 years of experience.
• Proven NVMe and PCIe protocol experience debugging complex SSD issues.
• SSD Firmware architecture and/or validation/test experience.
• SSD Firmware development/debug experience in C programming.
• Understanding of debug tools: PCIe protocol analyzers, Oscilloscope, Linux tools.
• Data center/server storage knowledge and experience.
• Experience with Open-Source SSD Tools, such as NVMe-CLI, FIO.
• Understanding of Open Compute Platform (OCP) specifications.
• Experience with Telemetry, Host logs (dmesg, event logs), Firmware trace logs.

Skills: SSD failures, firmware, NVMe, PCIe protocol, debug firmware in C

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