Media Firmware Development Engineer (SSD)

Location: Rancho Cordova, California, United States; fully onsite with office attendance five days per week

Salary: USD 128,960–201,500 per year

Company

hirify.global develops NAND memory technologies, solid-state drives, and optimized data storage solutions for customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Develop, review, document, and maintain product firmware source code in C and C++.
• Analyze customer and internal specifications and translate product requirements into development and validation plans.
• Develop low-level firmware, system architectures, device architectures, and operating-system components with hardware and ASIC design teams.
• Perform unit- and system-level testing, failure analysis, debugging, and issue resolution on pre-production and production hardware.
• Work across firmware disciplines and SSD architecture, including NVMe, PCIe, NAND, SATA, and SAS interfaces.
• Coordinate engineering priorities and milestones while participating in Agile and Kanban development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience developing, validating, or optimizing embedded firmware for SSDs or other NAND flash-based storage products.
• Experience with SSD architecture, NVMe, PCIe, NAND interfaces, error correction, and flash translation layer design.
• Strong C/C++ development experience in embedded environments, with Git, Python, and C/C++ debugging tools.
• Experience debugging and root-causing complex firmware issues through failure triage, log and telemetry analysis, and cross-functional issue resolution.
• Ability to work fully onsite in Rancho Cordova, California, five days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with NAND media management, including data placement, wear leveling, garbage collection, defect management, and endurance optimization.
• Experience designing firmware algorithms for latency, throughput, performance consistency, endurance, reliability, or quality of service.
• Experience analyzing drive-level performance and telemetry data and qualifying new NAND generations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills across multiple sites and engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile and Kanban environment focused on product quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborative work across firmware, hardware, ASIC, validation, and other engineering teams.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Healthcare and dependent-care flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) plan with company matching, plus eligibility for RSU, RCU, and cash bonus programs.