Staff Engineer, Storage Product Planning (NVMe)

Location: Daily onsite presence at the San Jose headquarters, United States, with 10% domestic travel.

Base pay: $152,000–$236,000 USD annually, plus incentive opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops memory, SSD, and technology solutions for smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and other applications.

What you will do

• Drive the enterprise and datacenter storage technology roadmap across NVMe, NVMe-oF, OCP, and SNIA initiatives.
• Draft, review, and influence technical specifications, proposals, committee decisions, and industry standards.
• Represent Samsung in storage industry bodies and collaborate with hyperscale architects from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Meta.
• Translate hyperscaler requirements into features for Samsung SSD controllers, firmware, custom form factors, and storage architectures.
• Identify and secure patents, monitor competitor strategies, and align emerging standards with Samsung R&D product requirements.
• Create technical whitepapers, solution briefs, customer education materials, and support OCP compliance and cloud vendor qualification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience, Master’s degree with 8+ years, Ph.D. with 5+ years, or equivalent experience in a relevant technical field.
• 10+ years of direct storage industry experience spanning legacy HDD systems, NAND flash, and SSD development.
• Recognized influence, technical contributions, or committee leadership within storage standards bodies, consortiums, or vendor alliances.
• Deep knowledge of PCIe, NVMe, FDP, telemetry, SAS, SATA, SCSI, SSD/NAND technology, and datacenter storage architecture.
• Practical understanding of SNIA storage management, data security, lifecycle tracking, and OCP datacenter NVMe SSD specifications.
• Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills required; the role is performed onsite in San Jose.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace focused on innovation, diversity, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
• 4+ weeks of paid time off annually, holidays, and sick leave.
• Family support benefits, including fertility and adoption assistance, medical travel support, and virtual veterinary care.
• Emotional wellness resources, including confidential therapy sessions.
• Onsite café and gym, virtual fitness classes, charitable giving match, and a flexible work environment.