Staff Engineer

Seeking a mid-level software engineer for the Memory Systems Data Analytics Team. The successful candidate will handle driving analytics to demonstrate NAND-related features on Flash products. This is an excellent career opportunity for a professional with software, firmware or test platform design background and exceptional interpersonal skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to corelate, analyze and create visualizations from various data sources, automate data-collection processes, and report results. Consistently review test results, generate and release Analytics reports
• Analyze large amounts of data, to discover trends and patterns through the life of flash.
• Make recommendations for future products based on historical data and predict trends.
• Exposure to statistical tools such as JMP, Spotfire etc will be beneficial
• Work with memory system architecture and firmware engineers, design test cases to discover the design flaws and firmware bugs related to flash management feature. Develop, conduct and document test plans.
• Develop test procedure specifications to demonstrate NAND storage subsystem reliability in compliance with industry standards.
• Implement and execute Flash Endurance & Reliability Test procedures. Ensure 24x7 up-time with proper test utilities automation and test system reliability demonstration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Statistical or Mathematics background is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience designing, building and unit testing software and solutions
• Working knowledge in Linux environment, proficiency in Python and/or C/C++
• Ability to follow and adapt software processes and policies of a NAND Test Platform in a complex user environment
• Experience in Flash Memory Technologies is a plus
• Experience in Data mining, Analysis from a large dataset is an asset
• Familiar with standard source control tools such as GIT, Mercurial or SVN
• Expertise in coding guidelines and review methods
• Superior in written and verbal communication
• Strong team player who can collaborate with colleagues and global teams

Additional information

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