VAST Data is looking for a R&D 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's data management vision is the future of the market." - Forbes
VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.
Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.
In this role, you will participate in the definition of VAST reference architecture for new highly available NVMeOF JBOFs and other systems, supervise the implementation by OEMs, define acceptance criteria, and ensure a successful product launch.
Required Skills:
- Ability to travel to integrator manufacturing sites in Arizona to drive custom and 3rd party servers and do knowledge transfer to the software and customer support teams.
- Hands-on experience with Linux servers.
- Demonstrate system-level understanding from low-level hardware through FW, and OS drivers.
- Server design: x86 CPUs, BMC, IPMI, Redfish, I2C/SMBus, BIOS, UEFI, design for high availability, thermal design.
- PCIe: Link training, configuration space, configuration procedures by the OS, hot-plug, transport layer, PCIe switch, SR-IOV. Experience with PCIe Gen.4+ is an advantage.
- Storage systems: NVMe SSDs, NVMeOF, RAID, OCP SSDs
- Networking: 100/200/400/800G Ethernet, Infiniband, RDMA, NVMeoF, QoS, Flow Control, VxLANs, Optical Transceivers, cables, and DPUs
- Linux: Device drivers, memory management, hardware debug and test tools.
- Vendor management experience
- B.Sc EE or CS (M.Sc. an advantage)
- 4+ years of experience
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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.
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