Senior Staff SSD Debug Engineer - 2270 - Folsom, United States
$133,960 - $223,270 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role focuses on triaging and debugging SSD drive failures for the data center SSD product line, with an emphasis on hyperscale server platforms.
What you'll do
- Perform root cause analysis for data center SSD failures, isolating issues across host, transport, firmware, and media.
- Drive cross-functional debug with firmware, platform, and customer teams, define reproducible test cases, and drive corrective actions.
- Analyze host and telemetry logs, correlate failures with firmware source code and hardware behavior, and drive root cause to closure.
- Troubleshoot SSD performance issues to reduce tail latencies and improve IOPS and throughput.
- Create 8D/failure analysis reports for customers.
What you'll need
- BS degree in computer engineering or equivalent field with minimum 10 years of experience, or MS degree in computer engineering or equivalent field 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.
- Excellent 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, root cause analysis, NVMe, PCIe protocol, firmware debug, 8D reports
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 46-day median for Failure Analysis Engineering roles.
Failure Analysis Engineering · Failure Analysis
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Open roles in category
189
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Median days open
46 d
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Median salary
$113k
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| Metric | KIOXIA America | All employers we track in this specialty (189 roles · 39 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 189 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 2 | 9328 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 46 d (−45 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $113k |
Skills observed across this category: SSD failures, root cause analysis, NVMe, PCIe protocol, firmware debug, 8D reports
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 34 open roles · median 67 d
- AMD · 14 open roles · median 54 d
- Infineon Technologies · 13 open roles · median 40 d
- Lam Research · 13 open roles · median 38 d
- Intel Corporation · 11 open roles · median 35 d
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 62 d
How we counted: 189 open Failure Analysis Engineering (Failure Analysis) roles from 39 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 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 Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.