Senior FTL Firmware Engineer - SSD Performance Reliability

Glocomms; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Glocomms is partnering with an international semiconductor manufacturer to identify a Senior FTL Firmware Engineer for onsite work in Rancho Cordova, California. You will design, develop, and optimize Flash Translation Layer firmware powering next-generation SSD products.

You will collaborate with hardware, ASIC, and validation teams, focusing on performance, reliability, and data integrity, with deep expertise in NAND flash storage, SSD controllers, and storage architecture.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a technical field is required.
• 8+ years of firmware engineering experience in SSDs, NAND flash, or embedded storage.
• Deep expertise in FTL architecture and SSD controller firmware development.
• Strong knowledge of NAND flash behavior, endurance, data reliability and error mitigation.
• Advanced programming in C/C++ in embedded/firmware environments.
• Experience developing storage firmware features (garbage collection, wear leveling, metadata management).
• Hands-on with firmware debugging tools (JTAG, ICE, firmware traces) and performance profiling.
• Experience with Git and modern version control.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; Mandarin skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain FTL firmware for advanced SSD controller platforms.
• Architect and optimize NAND management algorithms (garbage collection, wear leveling, bad block management).
• Develop firmware features for data integrity, metadata handling, mapping reconstruction, and power-loss protection/recovery.
• Implement data protection mechanisms including RAID encode/decode and error handling.
• Optimize I/O flow and scheduling to maximize SSD performance and parallelism.
• Drive improvements in latency, throughput, NAND endurance, and storage system efficiency.
• Analyze firmware logs and traces for root cause analysis and debugging.
• Support validation with stress tests, mixed workloads, power-fail tests, and corner-case checks.
• Collaborate with hardware, ASIC, validation and product teams; document architecture and testing methods.

Skills

Firmware engineering

FTL architecture

C/C++ embedded

NAND flash storage

Debugging tools

Git/version control

Cross-functional collaboration

Data integrity

Mandarin language (preferred)

Education

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, CS or EE

Tools

JTAG/ICE debuggers

Firmware tracing tools

Performance profiling tools

Job description

Glocomms is partnering with an international semiconductor manufacturer to identify a Senior FTL Firmware Engineer for onsite work in Rancho Cordova, California. You will design, develop, and optimize Flash Translation Layer firmware powering next-generation SSD products.

You will collaborate with hardware, ASIC, and validation teams, focusing on performance, reliability, and data integrity, with deep expertise in NAND flash storage, SSD controllers, and storage architecture.