Senior SSD Qualification Engineer: Enterprise Testing Leader

Samsung-Semiconductor; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4+ weeks paid time off

Health/Dental/Vision/401k

Flexible work policy

Onsite café and gym

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor seeks an experienced storage test engineer to qualify SSDs in customer systems at our San Jose headquarters. You will coordinate with local and remote teams, design test plans, and drive root-cause analysis for defects, ensuring timely resolution with development partners.

The role requires 5+ years in system testing of enterprise servers/storage, with scripting (Perl/Python/Shell) and knowledge of NVMe/PCIe or other protocols.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field with 5+ years of system level testing or development of enterprise servers and enterprise storage experience.
• Experience with at least 1 storage protocol like NVMe/PCIe, SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel.
• Familiar with protocol analyzers like LeCroy, SerialTek, or Xgig.
• Proficiency in server operating systems and system debug tools.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage/server system technologies.
• Expertise in storage test tools such as performance benchmarks, IO stress tools, protocol certifications, test execution and bug management tools.
• Scripting experience such as Perl, Shell or Python.

Responsibilities

• Execute enterprise SSD qualifications in customer systems.
• Communicate with team lead to understand qualification processes and test plans; report status and manage expectations.
• Coordinate with internal team and customer test engineers to execute qual plans; teams local and remote.
• Triage test failures and perform first level FA; design and run experiments to root cause defects and verify fixes with development teams.
• Provide feedback to functional test teams on issues seen in customer quals to improve coverage.
• Triaging customer field issues and provide support for timely resolution.
• Identify automation opportunities and help Automation team to improve existing framework.

Skills

5+ years system testing

Storage protocols (NVMe/PCIe/SAS/SATA)

Protocol analyzers (LeCroy/SerialTek/X

Education

BS in Computer Science or related technical field

MS degree +3 years preferred

Tools

LeCroy

SerialTek

Xgig

IO stress tools

Performance benchmarks

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor seeks an experienced storage test engineer to qualify SSDs in customer systems at our San Jose headquarters. You will coordinate with local and remote teams, design test plans, and drive root-cause analysis for defects, ensuring timely resolution with development partners.

The role requires 5+ years in system testing of enterprise servers/storage, with scripting (Perl/Python/Shell) and knowledge of NVMe/PCIe or other protocols.