Principal AI Workflow Engineer

The Principal Engineer AI Transformation is a senior technical leader and individual contributor embedded within Solidigms Firmware Organization. This role serves as the technical right-hand to the Head of AI Transformation responsible for evaluating emerging AI technologies designing practical adoption strategies and leading the end-to-end integration of AI capabilities into firmware engineering workflows. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in both large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems alongside a strong foundation in embedded systems development enabling them to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI innovation and the rigorous demands of storage firmware engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and define a firmware AI roadmap aligned to business priorities engineering efficiency and measurable impact.
• Prototype validate and scale AI tools and workflows for code generation review testing bug triage and documentation in firmware engineering.
• Design and deploy agentic AI RAG systems and domain-specific LLM pipelines using firmware knowledge and defect data.
• Build AI-assisted tooling across CI/CD IDEs and build systems to improve quality reduce review time and accelerate development cycles.
• Identify high-value AI use cases across the firmware lifecycle including simulation modeling regression testing coverage analysis and validation automation.
• Serve as the firmware organizations AI technical leader guiding architecture defining best practices coaching engineers and driving AI upskilling.
• Partner across AI Platform Security Legal IT DevOps and executive leadership to define success metrics and ensure secure compliant AI adoption.
• Architect secure scalable AI infrastructure and build external partnerships with vendors and research institutions to advance AI-driven firmware engineering.

Qualifications :

Candidates must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Requirements listed below would be obtained through a combination of schoolwork/classes/research and/or relevant previous job and/or internship experiences.

Minimum Requirements:

• 10 years of software or embedded engineering experience with deep expertise in C/C development for embedded systems RTOS environments or storage firmware.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building fine-tuning deploying or integrating large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems in production or near-production environments.
• Experience designing AI-assisted developer tooling (code generation review automation test synthesis) that integrates with existing CI/CD and engineering workflows.
• Deep understanding of firmware validation techniques including unit testing integration testing simulation frameworks and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
• Strong technical communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineering leaders and translate complex AI capabilities into pragmatic engineering strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in storage technology SSD firmware NAND flash systems or semiconductor engineering environments.
• Experience with MLOps platforms and AI infrastructure (e.g. model serving evaluation pipelines vector databases LLM gateways).
• Familiarity with AI-driven EDA tools hardware design automation or silicon lifecycle engineering.
• Contributions to open-source AI or firmware engineering projects or publications in relevant technical communities.
• Experience with advanced prompt engineering patterns multi-agent system design or LLM-based software engineering research (SWE-bench etc.).

Additional Information :

This position is also eligible to participate in Solidigms restricted stock unit (RSU) restricted cash unit (RCU) and cash bonus addition Solidigm offers a benefits package that includes medical dental vision supplemental life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts and a company match on eligible 401(k) plan contributions.

The compensation range for this role is $196240 - $314000. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills experience qualifications and geographic location. 

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