Hardware Engineer

DDN; Wheat Ridge (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to support deployment, validation, and operation of large-scale solutions across storage, compute, and networking infrastructure in Colorado. You will work closely with senior engineers to ensure systems are correctly configured, stable, and performant.

The role emphasizes BIOS and firmware validation, OS-level checks, and cross-layer troubleshooting, with opportunities to contribute to procedures, documentation, and long-term reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform-focused roles.
• Hands-on hardware and firmware experience (BIOS, BMC, device-level tools).
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with NVMe, NICs, storage fundamentals.
• Experience updating firmware with risk awareness.
• Good scripting skills; Go is a plus.
• Detail-oriented with proactive problem solving.
• Willingness to learn deeper system performance and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Perform system bring-up and validation, including BIOS configuration and firmware updates.
• Configure and verify platform settings for performance and reliability.
• Execute firmware updates across components (NVMe drives, NICs, system firmware).
• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to device initialization and health.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to triage cross-layer issues.
• Contribute to documentation and standardization of bring-up, validation, and operations.

Skills

System bring-up

Linux administration

Firmware updates

Go programming

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Attention to detail

Cross-layer debugging

Tools

BIOS tools

BMC interfaces

NVMe utilities

Job description

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to support the deployment, validation, and operation of large-scale solutions. This role focuses on system bring-up, hardware and firmware validation, and operational reliability across storage, compute, and networking infrastructure.

You will work closely with senior engineers to ensure systems are correctly configured, stable, and performant: from BIOS settings and firmware versions to OS behavior and device health.

What You’ll Do

• Perform system bring-up and validation, including BIOS configuration, firmware updates, and OS-level checks.

• Configure and verify platform settings (BIOS, BMC, OS) to ensure systems meet performance, reliability and consistency standards.

• Execute and validate firmware updates across components, including NVMe drives, NICs, and system firmware.

• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to:

• Device initialization and visibility.

• Firmware mismatches or upgrade failures.

• Misconfigurations impacting performance or stability.

• Understand, define and test procedures for:

• Drive swaps and rebuilds.

• Data integrity and system health checks.

• Minimizing impact to running systems.

• Monitor and validate storage device health, including basic performance characteristics and failure indicators.

• Work with Linux systems to verify configuration, collect diagnostics, and assist in debugging issues.

• Collaborate with senior engineers to upscale and help triage complex cross-layer issues.

• Contribute to documentation and standardization of bring-up, validation, and operational procedures.

What will you bring to DDN

• 5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform-focused engineering roles.

• Comfortable working directly with hardware and firmware, including BIOS, BMC, and device-level tools.

• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with storage and networking fundamentals (NVMe, NICs, basic I/O concepts).

• Experience performing and supporting firmware updates, with awareness of risk and failure scenarios.

• Good scripting skills; familiarity with Go is a plus.

• Strong attention to detail, able to verify configurations and catch subtle issues.

• Willingness to learn and grow into deeper system, performance, and debugging responsibilities.

• Curiosity about why systems perform the way they do: investigate, rather than just run scripts blindly.