Senior SSD Firmware Engineer

Silicon Motion; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 187,075 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Silicon Motion, Inc. in Milpitas, CA, seeks a Senior Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for SSD controllers and storage platforms, including FTL, NAND management, and system-level integration to ensure performance and data integrity.

The role involves optimizing I/O data paths, implementing NVMe/PCIe interfaces, debugging, performance profiling, and collaborating with ASIC, hardware, validation, and customer teams to deliver reliable firmware.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree required in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computing and Technology or related field.
• 2+ years of firmware engineering experience in embedded firmware for SSD products.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded firmware for SSD controllers and storage hardware.
• Optimize firmware for I/O and control path operations to improve performance.
• Implement and maintain FTL features including address mapping, garbage collection, and wear leveling.
• Develop firmware-level error handling and data integrity mechanisms for NAND flash storage.
• Handle power-on initialization, power-loss recovery, and data consistency.
• Create low-level firmware for SoC controllers and system bring-up routines.
• Implement and support NVMe and PCIe interfaces per industry specs.
• Perform debugging, root-cause analysis, and performance profiling.
• Collaborate with ASIC, hardware, validation, and customer engineering teams for integration.

Skills

C/C++ for embedded

NVMe/PCIe

GDB

Git

Jira

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

GDB

Git

Jira

Job description

Silicon Motion, Inc. in Milpitas, CA, seeks a Senior Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for SSD controllers and storage platforms, including FTL, NAND management, and system-level integration to ensure performance and data integrity.

The role involves optimizing I/O data paths, implementing NVMe/PCIe interfaces, debugging, performance profiling, and collaborating with ASIC, hardware, validation, and customer teams to deliver reliable firmware.