Staff Engineer, Storage Business Enablement

Engg; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor in San Jose seeks a Staff Storage Business Enabling Engineer to drive SSD business growth within NeoCloud and software-defined storage. You will bridge SSD R&D, product marketing, and customer needs, shaping roadmap and engagement with AI infrastructure ecosystems.

You will analyze architectures, define SSD requirements, and lead PoCs and evaluations, translating workloads into product opportunities and business cases. Travel up to 10% may be required as part of engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years experience in SSD, NAND, storage systems, server, data center, or related semiconductor/technology industries.
• Strong understanding of NVMe SSDs, NAND Flash, PCIe, and modern data center storage architectures.
• Experience with hyperscalers, NeoCloud providers, server OEMs/ODMs, storage vendors, or storage software companies.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts across hardware, software, and system architecture.
• Experience in customer-facing technical roles, including technical presentations, PoCs, evaluations, and design-in activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to translate customer requirements into opportunities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain technical relationships with customers to understand system architectures and workloads.
• Identify AI/ML storage use cases and translate pain points into SSD opportunities.
• Analyze storage architectures including NVMe, disaggregated storage, and tiering.
• Define SSD requirements including capacity, performance, endurance, latency, and form factor.
• Lead PoCs, evaluations, and design-in activities from exploration to production.
• Bridge customer requirements with SSD R&D, product marketing, sales, and engineering teams.
• Develop technical proposals, architecture analyses, benchmarking plans, and business cases for SSD adoption.

Skills

SSD technology

NAND architecture

Storage systems

Data center infrastructure

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

NVMe

PCIe

Job description

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Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a Staff Storage Business Enabling Engineer to drive SSD business growth within the NeoCloud and Software-Defined Storage sectors. This role serves as a critical technical bridge between the SSD business and the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure ecosystem, focusing on identifying emerging storage architectures and translating customer workload requirements into strategic product opportunities.

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy with 10% of domestic travel.

Reports to: Principal Engineer, R&D Product Development Planning

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain technical relationships with NeoCloud, Storage Software, and AI infrastructure customers to understand their system architectures, workloads, and future storage requirements.
• Identify emerging AI/ML storage use cases and translate customer pain points into SSD product and solution opportunities.
• Analyze storage architectures including GPU servers, AI clusters, distributed storage, NVMe storage, caching, tiering, KV Cache, object storage, and disaggregated storage.
• Work with customers to define SSD requirements including capacity, performance, endurance, latency, power, form factor, PCIe generation, NAND type, and software/firmware features.
• Lead technical discussions, PoCs, evaluations, and design-in activities from early technology exploration through qualification and production.
• Bridge customer requirements with internal SSD R&D, Product Marketing, Sales, Application Engineering, and Business teams to drive product roadmap and customer engagement.
• Develop technical proposals, customer presentations, architecture analysis, benchmarking plans, and business cases to support SSD adoption.
• Monitor technology and market trends in AI infrastructure, NeoCloud, storage software, and next-generation data center architectures and identify potential business opportunities.
• Build competitive intelligence on SSD vendors, storage platforms, and emerging storage technologies and translate findings into actionable business strategies.
• Support strategic customer engagements and executive-level discussions by providing technical insights and recommendations.
• Establish scalable customer engagement models and best practices for expanding SSD business with emerging AI infrastructure and storage ecosystem partners.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field with 10+ years experience.
• 5+ years of experience in SSD, NAND, storage systems, server, data center, or related semiconductor/technology industries.
• Strong understanding of NVMe SSDs, NAND Flash, PCIe, and modern data center storage architectures.
• Experience working with hyperscalers, NeoCloud providers, server OEMs/ODMs, storage vendors, or storage software companies.
• Ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts across hardware, software, and system architecture.
• Experience in customer-facing technical roles, including technical presentations, PoCs, evaluations, and design-in activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate customer requirements into actionable product or business opportunities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross functional and cross cultural teams.

You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people. An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding. You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches. Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change.

Key Competencies

• Technical Depth : Strong knowledge of SSD/NAND technology and data center storage architecture.
• System-Level Thinking : Ability to understand the interaction between SSD, CPU, GPU, memory, networking, storage software, and application workloads.
• Customer Orientation : Ability to identify customers’ underlying technical and business needs and proactively develop solutions.
• Business Acumen : Ability to connect technical requirements and emerging technologies to revenue opportunities and business strategies.
• Technical Communication : Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to engineers, architects, product teams, and executives.
• Cross-Functional Leadership : Ability to influence and coordinate R&D, Product Marketing, Sales, Application Engineering, and Business teams without direct authority.
• Strategic Thinking : Ability to anticipate technolog