Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
We鈥檙e looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to lead complex, cross鈥憄latform system validation and interoperability efforts for our next鈥慻eneration NVMe SSD products. You will shape technical direction within the group, architect scalable validation strategies, and drive engineering excellence across adjacent teams (firmware, hardware, QA, tools/automation). This role combines deep technical expertise with hands鈥憃n leadership, designing robust test architectures, elevating standards, and mentoring engineers to deliver high鈥慽mpact, customer鈥慻rade quality at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead system integration strategy for functional, stress, and interoperability validation across diverse platforms and operating systems.
- Develop scalable automation for system鈥憀evel workflows, including NVMe functional tests, reset/boot flows, PCIe behaviors, and telemetry/FTDC collection.
- Drive system鈥憀evel triage by identifying failure domains, improving debug repeatability, and accelerating root鈥慶ause isolation.
- Collaborate across FW, HW, Validation, Tools, and Architecture to ensure system behaviors and issues inform design and release decisions.
- Enhance productivity by improving test coverage efficiency, reducing execution cycle time, and optimizing platform readiness.
- Introduce new methodologies for system interop, workload generation, stress scenarios, and validation quality gating.
- Mentor engineers, uplift technical practices, and strengthen system鈥憀evel engineering rigor.