Product Validation Engineer

Job Description :

We are looking for a Storage Product Validation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in storage protocols, system-level validation, firmware debugging, and automation. The ideal candidate should have excellent analytical and debugging skills with strong programming capabilities in Python and C.

Key Responsibilities :

- Perform storage product validation across different hardware and software configurations.

- Validate and debug USB, PCIe, NVMe, and SCSI protocols.

- Analyze protocol behavior, failures, and performance issues using Teledyne LeCroy Protocol Analyzers.

- Perform PCAP/trace analysis and protocol-level debugging to identify root causes.

- Debug storage firmware and understand key SSD concepts including FTL, Wear Leveling, Garbage Collection, and related mechanisms.

- Use JTAG, telemetry, firmware logs, and system debug logs for failure analysis and root-cause identification.

- Develop and maintain validation scripts and automation using Python.

- Use C programming for debugging, test development, and understanding low-level system/firmware behavior.

- Collaborate with firmware, hardware, and software teams to reproduce, isolate, and resolve complex storage issues.

- Document test results, failures, debug findings, and validation reports.

Mandatory Skills :

- Storage Product Validation

- USB, PCIe, NVMe & SCSI

- Teledyne LeCroy Protocol Analyzer

- PCAP / Trace Analysis & Protocol Debugging

- Storage Firmware Concepts - FTL, Wear Leveling, Garbage Collection

- JTAG, Telemetry, Firmware & System Debug Logs

- Strong Python & C Programming

- Strong Analytical & Debugging Skills

Good to Have :

- SSD/NAND flash architecture knowledge

- PCIe Gen3/Gen4/Gen5 experience

- NVMe specification knowledge

- Linux-based storage debugging

- Experience with automation frameworks and validation tools

- Hardware/firmware bring-up and failure analysis experience

Skills

Python, NVMe, USB, Storage Domain, PCI-e, Firmware, C