Staff Engineer, Memory Systems Architecture (DRAM/HBM)

Location: Daily onsite presence at the San Jose headquarters in the United States

Base pay range: $163,000–$253,000 USD per year, plus incentive opportunities.

Company

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

What you will do

• Analyze large-scale in-field memory telemetry to identify DRAM failure modes, abnormalities, and failure-rate trends.
• Recommend solutions to mitigate field DRAM failures using knowledge of SoC controllers, memory operation, and platform RAS.
• Communicate improved ECC schemes to customers based on Samsung DRAM failure modes, including DQ and burst failures.
• Work with customers to establish the value of in-field fault-management architecture.
• Contribute to OCP standardization of DRAM and HBM failure logging.
• Design and validate platform RAS algorithms, including page offlining and hPPR, through proof-of-concept testing on real servers and applications.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience with a bachelor's degree, 8+ years with a master's degree, or 5+ years with a PhD; hardware fault management, reliability, or data-center fleet management experience is required.
• Knowledge of platform memory subsystems and RAS technologies, including ECC, page offlining, hPPR, and hardware sparing.
• Experience with ECC design and verification, reverse engineering, and CPU-to-memory address mapping.
• Experience modifying memory-controller registers and contributing commits to the Linux kernel.
• Understanding of DRAM and HBM failure modes.
• Ability to collaborate inclusively, learn independently, and develop innovative solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an incubation team focused on improving customer quality experience and minimizing downtime in AI/ML hardware deployments.
• Conduct research independently and collaboratively, with opportunities to publish findings through whitepapers and conferences.
• Flexible work environment aligned with the onsite San Jose work policy.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off of 4+ weeks annually, holidays, and sick leave.
• Family-care, emotional-wellness, charitable-giving, fitness, onsite café, and gym benefits.