# Principal Software Development Engineer, Solid State Drives

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Are you ready to push the boundaries of what's possible? At NVIDIA, you'll have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology that's setting the standard for graphical processing, PC gaming, and AI computing. As a Principal Software Development Engineer specializing in Solid State Drives (SSD), you'll help define accelerated storage technology!

**What You Will Be Doing:**

- Architect new persistent data storage platforms that meet targeted AI/HPC workload requirements.

- Own the solid state drive selection process, storage performance optimization and ensuring operational excellence in NVIDIA platforms using SSDs.

- Lead system integration and optimizing storage performance and endurance for SSD based storage platforms for NVIDIA.

- Industry Influence: Track and influence storage-class memory industry roadmap to keep NVIDIA leading in technological advancements.

**What We Need to See:**

- Proven Experience: Demonstrated expertise in SSD architecture and software/firmware development [Flash Translation Layer, NAND Backend optimization, SSD performance optimization].

- Technical Proficiency: Extensive knowledge of storage systems architecture and SSD performance metrics.

- Proven expertise in driving at-scale operational excellence for storage systems, ideally in a Cloud provider setting.

- Industry Insight: Ability to track and impact industry trends and roadmaps.

- Collaboration Skills: Outstanding ability to work with cross-functional teams, industry partners and ODMs to successfully implement storage solutions.

**Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:**

- Innovative Thinking: Proven track record of innovative problem-solving in SSD technologies.

- Technical Leadership: Experience leading technical projects and teams to achieve flawless execution.

- Knowledge: In-depth understanding of NAND and other persistent storage technologies, encompassing emerging trends and future possibilities.

- Patents, publications and demonstrated industry impact

## Skills

### Required
- SSD architecture
- software/firmware development
- storage systems architecture
- SSD performance metrics
- at-scale operational excellence
- Cloud provider setting
- industry trends and roadmaps
- cross-functional teams
- industry partners
- ODMs
- storage solutions
- NAND
- persistent storage technologies
- emerging trends
- future possibilities

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