NVMe Test Engineer (Contractor)

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What You’ll Do

The Technology Enabling Development Lab (TED) Our core development focus is the host interface firmware layer that sits in the intersection of system software and flash management firmware. This key host interface firmware technology drives Samsung’s breakthrough V-NAND technology and enables our customers to power performance-oriented, demanding, enterprise-class applications ranging from hyper-scale data centers, to big data processing, to software-defined virtualized storage arrays and infrastructures. Samsung is committed to developing the next generation of enterprise solid-state flash technologies. Our core development focus is the host interface firmware layer that sits in the intersection of system software and flash management firmware. This key host interface firmware technology drives Samsung’s breakthrough V-NAND technology and enables our customers to power performance-oriented, demanding, enterprise-class applications ranging from hyper-scale data centers, to big data processing, to software-defined virtualized storage arrays and infrastructures.

Our Enterprise-class SSD's are expected to be of the highest quality, therefore we seek a highly-experienced Test Engineer to drive continual improvement in the quality of our test infrastructure. This position will define, implement and support functional test coverage to validate NVMe FW. Other critical activities will be to constantly monitor and analyze test coverage and deploy new tools and capabilities into the daily regression cycles. Other duties will include monitoring quality metrics to ensure trends are demonstrating a constant improvement in product quality.

Location:  Hybrid, working onsite at our San Jose office 3 days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely the remainder of your time 

What You Bring

• 8 to 10 years of experience in a related field of expertise
• Bachelor's in Engineering degree
• You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people.
• An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding.
• You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches.
• Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change.
• The candidate will work on NVMe Solid State Drives on execution and debugging of OEM drive qualification tests.
• Primarily understand test scripts and debug failures that arise during test execution with the development team.
• Experience in running NVMe compliance is required.
• Experience in at least 1 front end storage protocol like NVMe/PCIe, FC, SAS is preferred.
• Programming/scripting background (Perl, Shell or Python is preferred).
• Familiarity with SSD or HDD testing is a plus.
• Hand-on experience with protocol analyzers like LeCroy, SerialTek, or Xgig.
• Experience with system or device-level performance analysis.

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