Senior Storage Architect for EDA/HPC & NetApp ONTAP

Samsung Semiconductor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Onsite lunch

Employee discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Wellness program

Job summary

Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) seeks a Senior Staff Storage Engineer to lead architecture, scalability, and performance for storage supporting EDA and HPC workloads. You will own ONTAP, StorageGRID, and related platforms, working with CAD, silicon design, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable storage for thousands of clients.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-team architectural reviews, and guide automation and IaC using Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of enterprise storage engineering experience.
• 5+ years directly supporting large-scale EDA and HPC environments.
• Expert-level experience with NetApp ONTAP, FlexGroup, SnapMirror, FabricPool, QoS, and ONTAP REST API automation.
• Deep expertise in Linux filesystems and NFS environments, including XFS, ZFS, ext4, NFS tuning and performance troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multi-year architecture, scalability, and capacity roadmap for NetApp ONTAP, StorageGRID, and enterprise storage infrastructure.
• Drive technical direction across petabyte-scale NFS environments, including performance optimization, resilience, cost efficiency, Linux filesystem tuning, and hybrid-cloud storage using AWS FSx, Azure NetApp Files, FabricPool.
• Architect, deploy, and support enterprise-scale storage platforms and replication topologies (ONTAP clusters, FlexGroup, SnapMirror, FabricPool, StorageGRID, multi-site replication).
• Diagnose and resolve complex end-to-end performance and operational issues spanning EDA apps, Linux NFS clients, networking, ONTAP internals, monitoring, and distributed compute, advancing automation via Python, Ansible, Terraform, ONTAP REST APIs.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers, leading design/architecture reviews, driving root-cause analyses, and guiding infra strategy across CAD, infra, SRE, and silicon teams.

Skills

Mentoring engineers

Architecture leadership

Storage scalability planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Ph.D. (optional)

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

FlexGroup

SnapMirror

FabricPool

ONTAP REST API automation

Linux (NFS)

XFS/ZFS/ext4

SystemTap/eBPF

Python

Ansible

Terraform

AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Azure NetApp Files

Job description

Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) seeks a Senior Staff Storage Engineer to lead architecture, scalability, and performance for storage supporting EDA and HPC workloads. You will own ONTAP, StorageGRID, and related platforms, working with CAD, silicon design, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable storage for thousands of clients.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-team architectural reviews, and guide automation and IaC using Python, Ansible, and Terraform.