Sr System Test Engineer - 2263 - Round Rock, United States
$99,560 - $165,930 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer — open 1 day.
About the role
This role involves qualifying KIOXIA SSD SAS and NVMe products for OEM customers, ensuring successful product qualifications through system testing.
What you'll do
- Work as a lead system test engineer qualifying KIOXIA SSD SAS and NVMe products.
- Create, maintain, and manage test scripts and execute test plans for server and storage platforms.
- Setup and maintain server and storage systems hardware and software applications.
- Engage with customer and engineering teams to refine and validate qualification test plans.
- Troubleshoot hardware or system related issues and perform first-level failure analysis on SSD drives.
- Perform lab-related functions, including planning for new test equipment purchases and maintenance of existing infrastructure.
What you'll need
- Experience in software or test development with hardware, firmware, and storage background.
- High understanding of Enterprise server/storage hardware, including storage area networks, storage architecture, Linux based operating systems, Windows systems, and storage file systems.
- Knowledge of SSD, NVMe & SAS interfaces, storage architecture, operating systems, and RAID file systems.
- Bash scripting expertise.
- B.S. or M.S. in Engineering (Mechanical, Production, Electrical, Electronics or Computer Science) or equivalent of minimum of 7 years of experience in technical industry with enterprise SSD technologies and Hardware Testing experience.
Skills: SSD, NVMe, SAS, server platforms, storage architecture, troubleshoot
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 52-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
314
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$167k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | KIOXIA America | All employers we track in this specialty (314 roles · 61 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 314 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 4 | 2024 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 3 d | 52 d (−49 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $167k |
Skills observed across this category: SSD, NVMe, SAS, server platforms, storage architecture, troubleshoot
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 49 open roles · median 45 d
- Micron Technology · 26 open roles · median 23 d
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 80 d
- Graphcore · 19 open roles · median 95 d
- Microchip Technology · 18 open roles · median 48 d
- NVIDIA · 18 open roles · median 17 d
How we counted: 314 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 61 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.