SSD Debug Engineer Manager 2262

As an SSD Debug Engineer Manager your primary role is to triage and debug SSD drive failures for our data center SSD product line. This role also requires building and managing a team of SSD Debug engineers to extend capabilities across multiple product this role you will work closely with the Product Support Engineering team to assist with resolution of customer reported issues and lead activities to root cause failures. This includes tracking multiple issues and driving multiple stakeholders to deliver in high-pressure situations. The candidate will be a critical stakeholder in the decision-making process with an emphasis on providing solutions that are acceptable to customers.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform debug for SSD related issues reported from customers and internal teams in the qualification and production phases
• Develop and manage a team of high performing SSD Debug engineers to align with organization strategies
• Work closely with product development teams to drive issues to resolution in a timely manner
• Represent owned issues in debug forums and customer meetings
• Drive and manage issues in bug tracking database
• Perform required lab work to replicate the reported issues
• Create 8D/failure analysis reports and explain to the customer
• Write product use-case technical white papers as needed

Qualifications :

BS degree in computer engineering or equivalent field with minimum 12 years of experience in a technical related field or MS degree in computer engineering or equivalent field with minimum 10 years of experience in a technical related field.

• Proven NVMe and PCIe experience debugging complex SSD issues
• SSD Firmware architecture and/or validation/test experience
• Excellent understanding of debug tools: PCIe and NVME protocol analyzers
• Data center/server storage knowledge and experience
• Open-Source SSD Tools such as NVMe-CLI FIO
• Good understanding of Open Compute Platform (OCP) specifications
• Experience with Telemetry Host logs (dmesg event logs) Firmware trace logs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (English)
• Experience in interacting with key stakeholders of a product development organization
• SSD Firmware development/debug a plus
• NVMe driver knowledge is a plus
• Experience with NVMe-MI TCG SMBus and NAND characteristics is a plus
• Able to travel when and where needed both domestic and international

Additional Information :

Req#2262; #LI-CB1

The expected salary for this position is $180300.00 - $300490.00.

At KIOXIA we value the following:

• Investment in you
  • Offering opportunities for career growth and personal development training
• Open-minded management
  • Empowering employees by listening and responding to ideas issues and approaches
• Flexible work-life balance
  • Offering a generous PTO allotment holiday shutdown and flexible work options
• Variety of cultures perspectives backgrounds and experiences of all our team members
  • Through our opportunity belonging and respect initiatives our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create an environment of belonging for all
• Benefits for our team members
  • Excellent medical and non-medical benefits 401(k) matching pet insurance

KIOXIA America Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time