PCIe SSD Validation Engineer

Collaborate: Triage failures from regression, bring up, and customer scenarios;correlate PCIe traces, NVMe/OCP logs, and system logs. Validate SSD behaviour under abnormal and corner conditions & provide periodic PCIe validation readouts for critical program milestones.

Job Title: PCIe SSD Validation Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA - Onsite
Duration: 06 month with possible extension
 

• Execute PCIe validation: Execute Gen4/Gen5/Gen6 link and protocol tests across different platforms and system configurations.
• Validate SSD behaviour under abnormal and corner conditions & provide periodic PCIe validation readouts for critical program milestones.
• Collaborate: Triage failures from regression, bring up, and customer scenarios;correlate PCIe traces, NVMe/OCP logs, and system logs. Partner with FW, HW, and systems teams to root cause and verify fixes, and roll improvements back into the test suite.
• PCIe tools: Leverage PCIe analyzers/exercisers for trace capture, error injection. Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, BERTs, and related tools (as needed) to support signal and protocol level debug.
• Test Roadmap & leadership: Lead coverage improvements based on lessons learned, standardize PCIe test APIs, logs, and reporting for reuse across products & share PCIe debug and test BKMs

 
Requirements:

• 6+ years’experience in SSD, storage, or PCIe centric validation / bring up (or equivalent embedded / high speed I/O domain).
• Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engieering
• Comfortable with Python (or similar) for test and tooling development;able to work effectively in Linux based validation environments.
• Experience with CI / regression infrastructure (e.G., Jenkins, Git based workflows) for large scale test execution.
• Hands on experience using PCIe analyzers/exercisers (e.G., Teledyne/LeCroy, Keysight, or similar) for trace capture and debug is a plus
• Strong debug skills across HW/FW/system boundaries is a plus
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to present findings, trade offs, and recommendations to engineering and program teams.
• Highly self motivated, detail oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast paced development environment.