Sr. Solutions Architect - Shanghai

Company Description

Join a multibillion-dollar global company that brings together amazing technology, people, and operational scale to become a powerhouse in the memory industry. Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California, Solidigm combines elements of an established, successful technology company with the spirit, agility, and entrepreneurial mindset of a start-up. In addition to the U.S. headquarters and other facilities in the U.S., the company has international presence in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Solidigm will continue to lead the world in innovating new Memory technologies with aspirations to be the #1 NAND memory company in the world. At Solidigm, we view problems as opportunities to define innovative solutions that hold the power to change the world and unleash the potential technological needs that the future holds. At Solidigm, we are One Team that fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that embraces individual uniqueness and empowers us to bring our best selves to deliver excellence in support of Solidigm's vision and mission to be the go-to partner for optimized data storage solutions. You can be part of the takeoff of an innovative business that develops cutting-edge products, delivers strong business value for customers, provides an engaging workplace for its employees, and serves a greater impact on the world. This is a golden opportunity for the right applicant to join us and help design, build, and lead Solidigm. We want a diverse team of dedicated professionals who will not just be Solidigm team members but contribute to how we shape the future of the organization. We are seeking applicants who will grow and thrive in our culture; be customer inspired, trusting, innovative, team-oriented, inclusive, results driven, collaborative, passionate, and flexible.

Job Description

Sr. Solutions Architect

Description

This is an exciting time to be at Solidigm – come join our Data Center Group as a Solutions Architect and work on one of the most advanced SSD technology portfolios in the world including the most capable Quadruple Level Cell (QLC) NAND Flash products. As a Solutions Architect, you will be part of a world-class team that will lead our business at Solidigm.

Solidigm is seeking a Solutions Architect focused on finding and exploring new opportunities and solutions for our data center SSDs. We are looking for a recognized top storage and memory solutions technical expert whose work will contribute directly to Solidigm's top line. This high-profile, leadership role is responsible for defining solutions that showcase Solidigm SSDs for data center workloads and requires staying at the forefront of data center trends in storage and memory technologies in hyperscale, cloud, and IT software. 

In this role you will:

• Work with the world's largest enterprise and cloud IT companies to help solve complex IT problems and drive infrastructure transformation
• Define the best fit solutions opportunity for Solidigm’s SSDs and prove the value of these solutions in practice
• Perform hands on lab work and engage in direct customer interaction as well as create marketing collaterals and present to senior management.
• Manage and/or lead contractors and Interns in a lab to stand-up and test target workloads.
• Work closely with Content Delivery Network, Hyperconverged Infrastructure/Software-Defined Storage, and Enterprise storage providers to unlock Solidigm technology value
• Position solutions value to customers, influencers, and partners, and train a world-wide sales force to scale these solution opportunities
• Evangelize Solidigm technologies in public forums and customer events to drive software evolution, infrastructure change and business scale.
• Connect key technical solutions into industry verticals, such as Cloud Service Providers, Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Energy, and more
• Develop novel solution architectures, recommend new product/feature development, recommend improvements to existing software and new software development needs, and prototype proof of concept designs
• Manage a solutions lab to direct internal proof of concepts work targeted for application acceleration using Solidigm SSDs and other supporting technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
• 8+ years of experience in IT engineering or data center applications, preferably with Intel Architecture-based CPUs, SSDs and Networking
• Detailed knowledge of I/O and memory / storage related software stacks, drivers, file system and kernel performance utilities
• Direct experience implementing IT data center solutions such as database, big data, analytics, software defined storage systems, converged and hyperconverged systems, performance sensitive applications, and/or open source infrastructure solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration and influencing skills
• Proven experience describing complex technology solutions in business terms, demonstrating business value to customers, and identifying future business opportunities
• Experience guiding the work of lab technicians to execute focused solutions testing

• Direct experience configuring and testing server and/or storage systems
• Experience running industry benchmarking tools on servers and/or storage systems

Preferred Requirements:

• Deep understanding of the data center SSD and HDD products, technologies, market, and trends
• Understanding of AI data pipeline and typical customer workloads
• Understanding of Hyperconverged Infrastructure, experience with VMware vSAN, Nutanix and Azure Stack HCI
• Understanding of Content Delivery Networks architecture, experience working with CDN providers
• Understanding of modern data center architecture and distributed storage systems such as HDFS, BeeGFS, Ceph, MinIO, Lustre, GlusterFS, SeaweedFS, ZFS
• Experience with industry standard benchmarks like TPC*, Stackm3, RocksDB and how they relate to storage

• Competence in related performance technologies such as DPDK, SPDK, PMDK
• Network and kernel tuning and optimization
• Master’s Degree in related field such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science