Staff Storage Architect for AI Infra & SSD Solutions

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

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.