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This role reports to the Director of the KIOXIA Innovation Lab.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and maintain deep technical relationships with key customers and partners, driving mutual value through collaboration.\nAnalyze industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying those likely to impact future product needs.\nAct as a technical advisor and resource within KIOXIA, educating internal teams on advancements and helping shape technology strategy.\nRepresent KIOXIA at key industry events, contributing to the company’s visibility and leadership in the storage ecosystem.\nDevelop reference architectures and oversee testing for flash storage in AI workloads, RAG pipelines, enterprise applications, and related environments.\nCollaboratively design server and storage infrastructure for GPU-oriented computing such as NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage and SCADA.\nConstruct testing procedures using appropriate benchmark tools and datasets, and test for performance improvements with GIDS and 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