SSD Firmware Engineer

Position Summary

Role and Responsibilities

About Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR)

With a wide range of industry-leading semiconductor solutions, we are enabling innovative growth in market segments in component solutions, featuring industry-leading technologies in System LSI, Memory and Foundry. Our engineers are offered a foundation to work on cutting-edge technologies such as Foundation IP Design, Mobile SoCs, Storage Solutions, AI/ML, 5G/ 6G solutions, Neural processors, Serial Interfaces, Multimedia IPs and much more.

As one of the largest R&D centers outside Korea for Samsung Electronics, we take pride in our ability to work on some of the cutting edge technologies. Our engineers get to work across diverse domains, projects, products, clients, people and countries, and conduct research in new and emerging technology areas. Innovation and creativity are highly valued at this innovation hub, as we strive towards providing high reliability; high performance and value added services that enable Samsung Electronics deliver world-class products.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Sound knowledge and hands-on experience in distributed storage system solution development
• Design and development of next generation SSD scale out storage systems
• Development of storage system features including but not limited to distribution, scaling, fail over protection, high availability, fast data path management and control plane
• Design/Optimize the distribute storage system for new age storage devices
• Deployment of scale out solution with different use case and cluster topologies
• Design & fast-paced development towards new ideas pertaining to Host/Storage co-design & vertical-optimizations.
• Development/customization in the Linux I/O stack, file-systems, Block layer, NVMe driver, SPDK, DPDK, FIO, nvme-cli.
• System performance benchmarking, analysis and optimization
• Unit & integration test framework development and automation.
• Trouble shooting complex issues including but not limited to scalability & performance issues, memory leaks, memory corruption and kernel panics
• Technical Leadership in design, planning, Framework development, implementation, unit and integration testing
• Open-source development and contribution
• Drive innovation by authoring whitepapers, new technical proposals, conducting POCs and introducing new techniques for issue debugging.
• Mentoring development team by conducting knowledge sharing sessions and trainings.
• Propose and present new ideas and concepts to improve products features, performance and quality.
• Keep abreast of changes in product architecture/design as well as developments in the related domain/technology.
• Understanding of Linux kernel stack, file systems, TCP IP stack
• Experience in developing the user mode storage software
• Understanding of RDMA, TCP-IP network protocols
• Understanding and hands-on experience implementing distribution algorithms, HA policies like replication and Erasure code, CAP theorem, failure over management
• Understanding of user space storage systems like SPDK, DPDK
• Understanding of interrupt and exception handling framework of Linux kernel
• Understanding of Linux kernel memory management and process memory subsystem interaction
• Understanding of server class CPU architecture and its internals
• Trouble shooting complex issues such as scalability & performance issues, memory leaks, memory corruption and Kernel panics
• Strong Programming Skills in High-level Languages (C/C++) and Scripting language (Perl/Python/Shell)
• Experience in planning, requirement analysis, design& development.
• Trouble shooting complex issues such as scalability & performance issues, memory leaks, memory corruption and Kernel panics
• Good understanding of product/automation frameworks, Hands on experience in using benchmarking tools (FIO, perf etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Good articulation skills
• Demonstrated team player and technical leader in a dynamic, fast moving and fast growing product development environment

Experience – 4 to 16 Years

Qualifications

• B.Tech/B.E/M.Tech/M.E
   

Disclaimer

Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR), a division of Samsung R&D India - Bangalore Pvt. Ltd is dedicated to employing a diverse workforce and providing Equal Employment Opportunity to all individuals, regardless of their religion, gender, age, marital status, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.