Senior SSD Firmware Engineer: FTL & NAND Expert

Future Wave Recruiting Solutions, LLC; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual merit increases

RSU eligibility for qualifying

Invention and patent recognition

401(k) employer matching

Length-of-service recognition

Comprehensive medical and health保险 for

Job summary

Future Wave Recruiting Solutions, LLC, in partnership with a leading semiconductor and storage technology organization, seeks an experienced Senior Firmware Engineer with expertise in SSD controller architecture, FTL development, and NAND flash technologies. You will design, develop, optimize, and validate firmware focused on performance, endurance, reliability, and data integrity.

Join a collaborative engineering team to implement robust firmware features, manage development cycles, perform

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of firmware or software applications engineering experience.
• Experience with SSD controller and/or firmware architecture.
• Strong C/C++ programming, data structures and low-level embedded development.
• Experience with JTAG and/or ICE debugging tools.
• Experience using Git or similar version-control systems.
• Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and in a small engineering team.
• Able to learn new technologies quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation and technical documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain FTL architecture and firmware.
• Develop and optimize I/O flows, GC, wear leveling, and related algorithms.
• Improve NAND endurance while maintaining performance and data integrity.
• Develop bad-block detection, isolation, recovery, and data-migration mechanisms.
• Manage NAND block lifecycle and firmware processes.
• Design robust metadata structures for mapping-table reconstruction and fast init.
• Develop mechanisms to prevent NAND issues including read disturb and retention loss.
• Design RAID encode/decode flows and data-protection mechanisms.
• Improve overall SSD reliability and fault-tolerance.
• Design power-loss protection and recovery algorithms; optimize recovery post power-loss.

Skills

C/C++

Firmware development

Embedded systems

SSD firmware

Git

JTAG/ICE debugging

Problem solving

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

JTAG/ICE debugging tools

Job description

Future Wave Recruiting Solutions, LLC, in partnership with a leading semiconductor and storage technology organization, seeks an experienced Senior Firmware Engineer with expertise in SSD controller architecture, FTL development, and NAND flash technologies. You will design, develop, optimize, and validate firmware focused on performance, endurance, reliability, and data integrity.

Join a collaborative engineering team to implement robust firmware features, manage development cycles, perform