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Senior SSD Hardware Design Engineer | Contract | Santa Clara, CA | Onsite
Position: Senior SSD Hardware Design Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite 5 Days/Week
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 Months with potential for extension
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior SSD Hardware Design Engineer to support the design, development, validation, and productization of high-performance storage hardware.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with SSD/NVMe hardware, PCIe, NAND, DDR, schematic and PCB design, high-speed hardware validation, and board-level debugging.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, lead, implement, and debug SSD hardware designs from concept through production.
- Contribute to hardware architecture, schematic design, PCB/layout, documentation, validation, and sustaining engineering.
- Drive interoperability testing across server, storage, and SSD platforms.
- Diagnose and resolve hardware issues in collaboration with engineering teams, external partners, and manufacturing/JDM partners.
- Work with high-speed bus technologies including PCIe, DDR, NAND, SPI, and I2C.
- Evaluate system-level tradeoffs involving mechanical, thermal, power, and signal-integrity considerations.
- Partner with diagnostics and test engineers to review validation strategies and test plans.
- Lead hardware failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions.
- Support field issues and customer-related hardware escalations.
- Develop and use automation to improve SSD design, validation, and debugging processes.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
- Support hardware development through product introduction and production.
Required Qualifications
- 7 years of experience in hardware design and development.
- Strong hands-on experience with schematic design, PCB design/layout, and component selection.
- Direct experience working on SSD, NVMe, or storage hardware designs.
- Strong understanding of PCIe and other high-speed interfaces.
- Experience with NAND Flash and DDR/DRAM technologies.
- Experience validating hardware at electrical, signal-integrity, protocol, and functional levels.
- Hands-on experience using high-speed oscilloscopes and differential probes.
- Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience with SPI and I2C interfaces.
- Strong hardware troubleshooting, failure analysis, and root-cause analysis skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Enterprise/datacenter SSD experience.
- PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6 experience.
- High-speed signal integrity and power integrity experience.
- Server/storage interoperability testing.
- Experience with hardware bring-up and production support.
- Hardware test automation using Python/Bash.
- Experience working with external manufacturing or development partners.
Work Environment
This position requires 5 days per week onsite in Santa Clara, CA.