Solutions Architecture Intern - We are hiring 2 intern roles, could be in Shanghai or Beijing
Description
This is an exciting time to be at Solidigm – come join our Data Center Group as a Solutions Architect and work on one of the most advanced SSD technology portfolios in the world including the most capable Quadruple Level Cell (QLC) NAND Flash products. As a Solutions Architect, you will be part of a world-class team that will lead our business at Solidigm.
Solidigm is seeking a Solutions Architecture Intern focused on finding and exploring new opportunities and solutions for our data center SSDs. This high-profile, internship role is responsible for helping to define solutions that showcase Solidigm SSDs for data center workloads and requires staying at the forefront of data center trends in storage and memory technologies in hyperscale, cloud, and IT software.
In this role you will:
- Work with the world's largest enterprise and cloud IT companies to help solve complex IT problems and drive infrastructure transformation
- Define the best fit solutions opportunity for Solidigm’s SSDs and prove the value of these solutions in practice
- Perform hands on lab work and engage in direct customer interaction as well as create marketing collaterals and present to senior management.
- Stand-up and test target workloads.
- Work closely with Content Delivery Network, Hyperconverged Infrastructure/Software-Defined Storage, and Enterprise storage providers to unlock Solidigm technology value
- Connect key technical solutions into industry verticals, such as Cloud Service Providers, Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Energy, and more
- Develop novel solution architectures, recommend new product/feature development, recommend improvements to existing software and new software development needs, and prototype proof of concept designs
- Develop internal proof of concepts work targeted for application acceleration using Solidigm SSDs and other supporting technologies.
Preferred Requirements:
- Deep understanding of the data center SSD and HDD products, technologies, market, and trends
- Direct experience implementing IT data center solutions such as database, big data, analytics, software defined storage systems, converged and hyperconverged systems, performance sensitive applications, and/or open source infrastructure solutions
- Understanding of AI data pipeline and typical customer workloads
- Understanding of Hyperconverged Infrastructure, experience with VMware vSAN, Nutanix and Azure Stack HCI
- Understanding of Content Delivery Networks architecture, experience working with CDN providers
- Understanding of modern data center architecture and distributed storage systems such as HDFS, BeeGFS, Ceph, MinIO, Lustre, GlusterFS, SeaweedFS, ZFS
- Experience with industry standard benchmarks like TPC*, Stackm3, RocksDB and how they relate to storage
- Competence in related performance technologies such as DPDK, SPDK, PMDK
- Network and kernel tuning and optimization
Minimum Qualifications:
- Have a Bachelor's Degree, and are pursuing Master's Degree, in related field such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
- Detailed knowledge of I/O and memory / storage related software stacks, drivers, file system and kernel performance utilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration and influencing skills
- Direct experience configuring and testing server and/or storage systems
- Experience running industry benchmarking tools on servers and/or storage systems
