Responsibilities

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy with 10% of domestic travel.
Reports to: Principal Engineer, R&D Product Development Planning
Technical Contribution: Propose, draft, and review technical specifications and proposals within NVMe and OCP working groups.
Ecosystem Leadership: Act as a premier thought leader and key influencer within the broader storage community, serving in high-profile leadership positions (e.g., Committee Chair, Board Member, or Workgroup Lead) within NVMe, OCP, or SNIA boards.
Industry Influence: Leverage an established technical network and a proven track record of influence within the storage industry to accelerate the adoption of favorable standards.
Strategic Representation: Own technical voting seats and actively influence core NVMe and OCP committees to align industry standards with Samsung's core product capabilities, and technological strengths.
IP and Innovation: Identify, draft, and secure patents for proprietary storage technologies during the early phases of the standardization process to protect Samsung's intellectual property.
Samsung Product Alignment: Translate specific hyperscaler requirements—such as Microsoft’s Azure Cloud SSD specifications and Meta’s platform requirements—into actionable features for Samsung’s enterprise SSD controller and firmware architectures.
Technology Roadmap Mapping: Analyze emerging standards and translate them into direct, actionable product requirements for internal R&D teams.
Hyperscale-Samsung Collaboration: Jointly develop next-generation storage architectures (e.g., custom form factors like E1.S/E3, or advanced features like FDP) directly with architects from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Meta, and Samsung's product planning units.
SNIA Standards Implementation: Collaborate SNIA specification initiative into Samsung SSD management interfaces for unified datacenter storage orchestration.
Compliance & Integration: Partner with to ensure hardware and firmware align strictly with standard OCP compliance tests and specific cloud vendor qualification suites.

Staff Engineer, Storage Product Planning at Samsung Semiconductor · LumiJobs

Staff Engineer, Storage Product Planning

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Samsung Semiconductor

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