Principal Engineer-System Design Verification Engineering

Principal Engineer - System Design Verification

Job Description:

Ideal candidate for this position shall be an expert in the validation of NVME/SATA based Solid State Drives (SSD) involving extensive debug of customer issues along side cross-functional and cross-geographic teams. Candidate should have “Customer First & Quality First” mindset in his/her approach to validation delivering high quality product to customers. He/She will work with customer facing teams to debug and root cause customer issues with shortest possible turn-around time and documenting/presenting debug findings in review forums within WD and at customer.

Requires Skill Sets(Technical):

• Extensive hands-on experiencr in PCIE/NVMe protocol testing and debug, including knowledge of relevant debug tools (protocol analyzers, scopes, logic analyzers)
• Expert level experience in troubleshooting and analyze complex problems
• Experience on rigorous OEM/ODM qualification for embedded memory and SSDs
• Experience working with Flash memory technologies
• Experience working with customers
• Expertise in PC chipset and motherboard validation
• Experience in tools like Crystal Diskmark, IOMeter, PCmark, Sysmark  or similar benchmarking tools
• Knowledge of programming in high level languages (e.g. C, C++, Python) is a plus.
• Experience in Windows debugging, Crash dump analysis & Event logs analysis
• Experience in windows storage driver validation
• Knowledge in UEFI & Boot process
• Knowledge of system architecture is a plus.
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Requires Soft Skills:

• Self-motivated and Self-driven
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to achieve results in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Ability to analyze problem and direct team or even work independently as required
• Ability to co-ordinate with different geographic locations. 

Education:

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Engineering/Science
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience

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