PCIe SSD Validation Engineer
DeWinter BH ·www.dewintergroup.com
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Title: PCIe SSD Validation Engineer
Job Type: Contract
Contract Length: 6 months (potential to extend)
Pay Range: $70 - $80/hr
Start Date: 7/27
Location: Onsite - Santa Clara, CA
About the Opportunity:
Our client, a leader in the data storage industry, is looking for a skilled PCIe SSD Validation Engineer to join their team for a 6-month engagement. This project involves executing critical PCIe validation, including Gen4, Gen5, and Gen6 link and protocol tests, and driving root-cause analysis to ensure product reliability. This is a high-impact role that requires a self-motivated professional who can hit the ground running and deliver results quickly.
Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:
This role is focused on the successful completion of specific tasks and deliverables. Your responsibilities will include:
We are looking for someone with a proven track record of successful contract engagements. The ideal candidate will have:
Job Type: Contract
Contract Length: 6 months (potential to extend)
Pay Range: $70 - $80/hr
Start Date: 7/27
Location: Onsite - Santa Clara, CA
About the Opportunity:
Our client, a leader in the data storage industry, is looking for a skilled PCIe SSD Validation Engineer to join their team for a 6-month engagement. This project involves executing critical PCIe validation, including Gen4, Gen5, and Gen6 link and protocol tests, and driving root-cause analysis to ensure product reliability. This is a high-impact role that requires a self-motivated professional who can hit the ground running and deliver results quickly.
Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:
This role is focused on the successful completion of specific tasks and deliverables. Your responsibilities will include:
- Execute PCIe Validation: Conduct Gen4/Gen5/Gen6 link and protocol tests across different platforms and system configurations, validating SSD behavior under abnormal and corner conditions.
- Collaborate & Debug: Triage failures from regression, bring-up, and customer scenarios by correlating PCIe traces, NVMe/OCP logs, and system logs.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with FW, HW, and systems teams to root-cause issues, verify fixes, and roll improvements back into the test suite.
- Technical Tooling: Leverage PCIe analyzers/exercisers for trace capture and error injection, and utilize oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and BERTs as needed to support signal and protocol-level debug.
- Leadership: Lead coverage improvements based on lessons learned, standardize PCIe test APIs, and share debug and test Best Known Methods (BKMs) across products.
We are looking for someone with a proven track record of successful contract engagements. The ideal candidate will have:
- 6+ years of 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 Engineering.
- Proficiency in Python (or similar) for test and tooling development, with the ability 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) for trace capture and debug is a plus.
- Strong communication skills to provide clear findings, trade-offs, and recommendations to engineering and program teams.
- W2 only (No C2C or 1099 contractors)
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