Western Digital 

We deliver the possibilities of data. YOU define what’s possible.

This position needs to provide strategic professional/technical leadership or vision to the Company, and will lead every design activities. Leadership and responsibility will be required as a Technologist.

This candidate must be able to write technical papers, application notes, user instructions and conducting necessary technical training internally or externally.

The individual will also work closely with ASIC, Firmware, Device, Design, Quality and Reliability teams and building strong relations with technical decision makers.

This position needs to NAND and FTL experience that has deepened into intuition and highly skilled at bringing up new products. Knowledge of error correction codes, statistics, variability, probability, design of experiments.

In this position, the individual will program and implement SSD firmware in C and C++ language, debug issues and problems coupled with RTOS, SATA and PCIe protocol, and NAND interface.  The individual analyzes, designs, programs, debugs and modifies SSD firmware. Troubleshoots code for firmware (IC embedded code) applications. Work often involves analog and digital hardware and software operating systems. Position requires knowledge and exposure to hardware design. Typically programs in machine language, assembly language and high level languages (e.g., C, C++).

In this role the individual will be part of the Technical Market organization supporting both internal/external customers and will play key role in development of NAND memory based products for SSD's and embedded NAND memory solutions. Specifically the candidate will be responsible for working with SSD and PCI-e teams in understanding the system requirements and bridging any gaps between the memory and the systems.

This requires review of Product specifications and provides cost/performance competitive NAND memory solutions. Role also requires resolving internal customer issues related to NAND memory from product development to mass production. As such the candidate will work with large cross functional teams in driving the qualification of memory into SSD and PCIe systems. In addition this position requires support of very technical collateral to internal teams that use special modes in NAND to boost performance, endurance, and power.

Preferred Qualifications 

1. Experience in Storage or NAND solution related firmware development    
2. Experience in communication protocol (e.g. USB/BT/Storage) development  
3. Experience in Security Module development (e.g. TCG OPAL) 
4. Experience in RTOS development (e.g. Arc) 
5. Knowledge of the Agile software development process life cycle