Senior SSD Firmware Architect

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Senior SSD Firmware Architect in USA new

Solidigm
Full time
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USA
09/20/2026
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Longmont, CO

Responsibilities

Provide cross-domain system and product-level technical leadership for SSD firmware architecture.
Drive architectural requirements, feature assessments, and high-level scoping for customer requests and new products.
Lead, develop, review, and document product source code in C/C++.
Analyze, architect, and develop firmware according to internal and customer specifications.
Develop low-level firmware, operating-system and device architectures in partnership with hardware and ASIC design teams.
Perform unit and system-level testing, failure analysis, debugging, and development-phase validation.
Translate product requirements into development and validation plans with project stakeholders.
Coordinate priorities and engineering activities to achieve committed milestones.
Drive architecture decisions involving performance, reliability, power, cost, and scalability tradeoffs.
Develop firmware technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging storage technologies.
Establish firmware architecture, coding standards, development processes, and technical direction across engineering teams.
Engage strategic customers to translate requirements into architectural solutions and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
10+ years of software or firmware development experience in embedded systems using C/C++, including 8+ years in SSD firmware architecture or NAND flash storage systems.
Demonstrated technical leadership across cross-functional ASIC, hardware, firmware, validation, product engineering, and manufacturing teams.
Expertise in SSD firmware technologies including FTL, QoS, wear leveling, garbage collection, bad block management, ECC/error recovery, power-loss protection, and NAND flash management.
Experience with enterprise storage interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, NVMe, and NVMe-MI.
Experience with SSD security technologies such as TCG Opal, IEEE 1667, ESSC, AES, Secure Boot, and firmware authentication.
Experience working with controller ASIC and hardware architecture teams on next-generation product capabilities.
Experience with QLC/PLC NAND, Zoned Namespaces, Computational Storage, CXL, and NVMe over Fabrics is preferred.
Experience with software development lifecycle, CI/CD, automated validation, and embedded-firmware release management.
Strong written, presentation, communication, influencing, leadership, multitasking, and customer-engagement skills.

Benefits

Eligible to participate in restricted stock unit, restricted cash unit, and cash bonus programs.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, supplemental life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, and company-matched 401(k) contributions.
Hybrid role based in Rancho Cordova, California, or Longmont, Colorado.

Salary: $154k - $246k/yr

Solidigm

Solidigm designs and manufactures NAND flash memory and solid-state drives for data center, enterprise, and client computing markets. Its portfolio spans high-capacity and high-endurance SSDs with supporting firmware/software sold to OEMs and hyperscale cloud providers. Formed in 2021 from Intel’...

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