Lead SSD Qualification & Validation Engineer

NextGenEnergyJobs; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an SSD Qualification Engineer to lead end-to-end qualification, reliability, and readiness of next-generation storage solutions. You will bridge firmware engineering, customer workloads, and scalable test automation to deliver solid enterprise drives.

Responsibilities include defining qualification plans with cross-functional teams, validating firmware interactions with PCIe/NVMe, and building data-driven validation metrics.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated mastery of SSD fundamentals, NAND behavior, endurance, and error mechanisms.
• Proficiency in Python for building automated test frameworks, tooling, and data-analysis workflows.
• Experience with Linux environments and CI/CD integration (e.g., Jenkins).
• Strong troubleshooting skills to drive cross-functional validation and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Customer Qualification & Readiness Strategy across cross-functional teams.
• Drive SSD Firmware & Feature Validation across regression, fault-injection, and stress tests.
• Build scalable test automation and infrastructure, integrating Python frameworks into CI/CD.
• Solve complex system failures using telemetry and diagnostic tools with firmware collaboration.
• Elevate engineering standards by developing data pipelines and telemetry dashboards.

Skills

SSD fundamentals

NAND behavior

PCIe/NVMe

Python

Linux

Jenkins

Telemetry data

Tools

Python

Jenkins

Linux

Job description

NextGenEnergyJobs in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an SSD Qualification Engineer to lead end-to-end qualification, reliability, and readiness of next-generation storage solutions. You will bridge firmware engineering, customer workloads, and scalable test automation to deliver solid enterprise drives.

Responsibilities include defining qualification plans with cross-functional teams, validating firmware interactions with PCIe/NVMe, and building data-driven validation metrics.