VAST Data is looking for a Hardware System Engineer to join our growing team!
This is a great opportunity to be part of the fastest-growing infrastructure company in history. VAST Data is revolutionizing data storage solutions with its Universal Storage platform, designed to simplify AI and enterprise infrastructure.
In this role, you will be responsible for qualifying hardware components such as servers, JBOFs, SSDs, network cards, switches, and optical transceivers. You will write requirement documents for new features, work with vendors on implementation and debugging, and transfer knowledge to internal teams, including software developers, QA, support, and manufacturing. Additionally, you will become the subject matter expert for specific hardware platforms and technologies. Join us and contribute to shaping the future of data management while being part of a fast-growing, innovative company.
RequirementsRequired Skills:
Demonstrate a detailed system-level understanding of systems
Previous experience in hardware design, firmware design, linux device drivers and/or QA/verification of complex systems.
B.a. / B.Sc EE or CS - an advantage
Prior experience in at least one of the following technical areas:
PCIe: Link training, configuration space, configuration procedures by the OS, hot-plug, transport layer, PCIe switch, SR-IOV, experience with PCIe Gen.4+ an advantage.
Server design: x86 CPUs, BMC, IPMI, Redfish, SMBus/I2C, BIOS, UEFI, design for high availability, thermal design.
Storage systems: NVMe SSDs, NVMeoF, RAID, OCP SSDs
Networking: 100/200/400/800G Ethernet, Infiniband, RDMA, NVMeoF, QoS, Flow Control, VxLANs, Optical Tranceivers, cables and DPUs
Linux: Device drivers, memory management, hardware debug and test tools.
Skills Required
- System-level understanding of systems
- Experience in hardware design, firmware design, and QA/verification of complex systems
- B.A. / B.Sc in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
- Experience with PCIe, server design, storage systems, and networking
- Knowledge of Linux, device drivers, and hardware testing tools
What We Do
Meet the data platform company for the AI era. Accelerating time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, the VAST Data Platform delivers scalable performance, radically simple data management and enhanced productivity for the AI-powered world. Launched in 2019, VAST is the fastest-selling data infrastructure startup in history.
