The NAND Product Validation Team is seeking a Senior NAND System Validation Engineer with deep experience in Silicon, Firmware, and Product Validation (execution and debug). In this position you will provide technical leadership in enabling a fast-paced, path-finding team developing new NAND system validation platform to meet evolving NAND/SSD validation challenges. This position is responsible for analyzing NAND data sheet specifications, defining system validation requirements, ensuring validation flows meet functional and performance requirements per milestone, and other quality criteria. NAND SDV Tech lead responsibilities include, but are not be limited to: Develop, execute and debug test flows and validation scenarios. Identify and close SSD sightings including bug fixes. Lead the debug of SDV hardware. Interface with Architecture, Design, Validation Engineers, SSD, and Firmware teams to enable platform validation and closure of issues. Autonomously plans and schedules own daily tasks and develops solutions to problems utilizing formal education and judgment. Additional responsibilities may include enabling/validation on customer platforms. A successful candidate must demonstrate the following behaviors: Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills, as well as good written and verbal communication skills. Work effectively with both internal and external teams. Mentor other engineers and technically guide them. Highly motivated and self-directed. Analytical problem solving, innovation, and a mindset of continuous improvement. Work independently and at different levels of abstraction.

The position is associated with the sale of the NAND business to SK Hynix aligning to Phase 2 of the transaction. Employees aligned to Phase 2 will continue to be employed by Intel developing NAND technology and components. Phase 2 of the transaction is expected to close in March 2025 at which time employees aligned to this phase of the transaction will transition employment to Solidigm, a stand-alone US subsidiary of SK Hynix headquartered in San Jose, California with offices world-wide. Solidigm is a leading global supplier of NAND flash memory solutions, led by Robert (Rob) B. Crooke as CEO, previously senior vice president and general manager of Intels Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. To read more, see: https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1513/intel-sells-ssd-business-and-dalian-facility-to-sk-hynix

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Requirements

The candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

6+ years of experience in the following areas:
- Hardware and Software product development.
- Product Validation experience.
- Computer storage and memory hierarchy.
- Technical product development and customer enablement.

- 3+ years of experience in the following:
- Solid State Drives (SSDs)
- Software or firmware development experience in an embedded systems environment with programming in C/C++
- Firmware development environments including compilers, debuggers, emulators, and tool-chains
- Development of unit tests for code coverage and quality validation

Preferred Qualifications:

The candidate must have a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of experience in the minimum requirements.

-Storage industry (SSDs or enterprise storage)
-Embedded development techniques using hardware and firmware tools
-Enterprise storage interface protocols (e.g., SATA, SAS, PCIe, and NVMe)
 

Employees in Intel's NAND Product Group deliver solutions that are transforming computing across all segments from data centers to Ultrabooks. They invent, develop, bring to market and support customers with leading-edge NAND flash memory and system level solutions such as solid state drives (SSDs). SSDs are accelerating performance for gaming enthusiasts, reducing total cost of ownership for IT managers of data centers and improving security and reliability for businesses. This dynamic group is strategically positioned to become the leading Non-Volatile Memory solution supplier for the compute segment and is a key to expanding markets and continuing the growth for Intel.

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Posting Statement

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