Principal Engineer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Using sound test engineering principles, knowledge of the product and technology to ensure the product meets functional and customer requirements and is ready to ship on schedule
• Owns product validation regarding test plan definition, test plan execution, and primary lead in failure analysis
• Primary lead in performing performance characterization of product and tracking down any observed anomalies
• Contributes to overall test schedule development
• Writes the test plans for new product features, generates test matrices, test reports, and other relevant test documentation that is required for flawless program execution
• Defines new tests based on customer feedback and defect fixes
• Executes existing/regression test cases for the project during the entire product development cycle
• Works closely with the other system test, hardware, ASIC and firmware engineers to improve test methodology and develop new tests and new strategies
• Configures customer hardware and software systems; troubleshoot problems to get to root cause
• Maintains customer and test equipment to current revision

REQUIRED

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, other related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of experience in Storage/Networking

SKILLS:

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong protocol knowledge in one or more of the following areas: TCP/IP, SCSI, Ethernet, RDMA protocols & PCIe
• Experience in performance analysis techniques with a penchant for root cause analysis of anomalies
• Knowledge and experience with Linux and Windows
• Knowledge and experience writing scripts in Python
• Ability to operate and interpret PCIe/NVMe/Ethernet traces
• Proven track record with writing detailed test plans
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills and out-of-the-box thinking to test and validate hardware
• Team-Player, can-do attitude and will work well in a group environment while still being able to contribute on an individual basis.