Senior Software Engineer (Hardware, Networking & Storage)

As a Senior Software Engineer you will serve as a technical leader and org-level authority for on-prem system architecture setting the multi-year technical vision and strategy across software firmware hardware and manufacturing not just for a single team but for how the broader engineering organization builds validates and scales low-level systems. You will be recognized as a driving force in applying AI/GenAI to engineering practice itself shaping how the org uses AI in design validation and automation while also owning the deepest technical bets on storage networking and OS architecture. This role carries organizational influence: your technical judgment sets direction that other senior engineers and teams align to.

• Defines and owns the multi-year technical roadmap for on-prem platform architecture balancing performance reliability cost and manufacturability
• Makes and defends high-stakes architectural trade-offs with org-wide impact and is accountable for their long-term consequences
• Identifies emerging technologies (hardware protocols AI-driven tooling) worth betting on and builds the case to adopt them org-wide

• Acts as a recognized leader in applying AI/GenAI across engineeringnot only using GenAI tools but setting the strategy standards and best practices for how the org adopts them
• Drives architecture decisions for LLM/GenAI-powered systems: RAG pipelines agentic automation model evaluation frameworks and prompt/response reliability at scale
• Evangelizes and mentors other engineers and leads on applied AI running reviews setting guardrails (accuracy cost data privacy) and identifying where AI should and shouldnt be used
• Represents the orgs AI engineering direction to senior leadership and where relevant external technical communities

• Authoritative protocol-level expertise across networking capable of driving architecture decisions and resolving the orgs hardest network-layer issues
  • TCP/IP network stack
  • Computer networks
  • NFS SMB iSCSI FC

• Deep authoritative command of OS internalssets direction on kernel/OS architecture decisions and is the escalation point for the hardest root-cause investigations
  • Linux Unix OS internals (Kernel & Networking)
  • FreeBSD and its architecture
  • OS booting process (Linux/Unix)
  • BIOS/UEFI GRUB bootloaders
• Owns architectural decisions across storage and hardware interfaces including performance tuning failure analysis and next-generation platform design
  • NAS SAN
  • NVMe technologiesNVMeOF(NVMe over Fabrics) architecture and design trade-offs
  • PCIe Ethernet interfaces
  • RAID SSDs
  • IOM (I/O Module)design shelf/enclosure architecture and hardware interface integration
• Sets the automation strategy and standards for the broader teamdetermining what should be automated how and to what reliability bar
• Maintains expert hands-on fluency in Python C and C using it to prototype and validate architectural decisions directly not only to review them
• Mentors senior and staff-level engineers shaping how they grow technically and how they approach ambiguous problems
• Runs and sets the bar for architecture reviews across multiple teams not just design/code review within one
• Aligns software firmware hardware and manufacturing organizations around shared technical direction resolving cross-org technical disagreements
• Represents the companys technical position in customer escalations partner discussions or industry forums as needed
• Owns the technical narrative for the platformarchitecture docs technical roadmaps and strategic planning inputs to leadership

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related requires a minimum of 8years of related experience.