Staff Customer Qualification Engineer - 2254 - Folsom, United States
$115,470 - $192,440 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 August 2026 by the employer — open 43 days. Relisted by the employer on 14 September 2026.
This role focuses on customer qualifications for datacenter SSD products.
About the role
This role involves supporting customer qualifications for datacenter SSD products on behalf of engineering and development teams. You will provide support on test plan development, execution, failure analysis, and status reporting during the product qualification phase.
What you'll do
- Manage complex qualification infrastructure from multiple customers.
- Plan and drive execution of customer qualifications.
- Perform failure triage on issues found during qualification.
- Drive issues to resolution in a timely manner.
- Write test status reports regularly.
- Use a bug tracking system for filing and managing issues.
What you'll need
- BS degree in computer engineering or equivalent field with 7+ years relevant hands-on technical experience.
- Advanced understanding of computer system architecture fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with SSDs or related storage devices.
- Platform-level troubleshooting skills including run/break/fix capabilities and issue isolation.
- Experience with Windows and Linux server operating systems.
- Experience with Python/PowerShell/Bash scripting languages.
- Familiarity with data manipulation/analysis.
- Experience with technical communication through bug tracking tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with PCIe/NVMe protocols, including analyzer and power measurement tools.
- Experience with SSD performance measurement tools and methodologies.
- Experience with OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD specifications and SSD test system usage.
- Experience interacting with stakeholders of a product development organization.
Skills: datacenter SSD, product qualification, failure triage, test plan development, NVMe protocols
This role has been open 42 days — well below the 64-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
89
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | KIOXIA America | All employers we track in this specialty (89 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 89 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 2 | 2040 · 110 employers |
| Median days open | 42 d | 64 d (−22 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: datacenter SSD, product qualification, failure triage, test plan development, NVMe protocols
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 55 open roles · median 84 d
- SanDisk · 16 open roles · median 28 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 4 open roles · median 100 d
- OmniVision · 2 open roles · median 129 d
- Solidigm · 2 open roles · median 8 d
- Synopsys · 2 open roles · median 9 d
How we counted: 89 open Product Engineering (Memory Design) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.