Hardware Design Engineer, Systems Engineering
Pure StorageSanta Clara, California
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
$175k - $263k
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Job Description
This role involves designing, validating, and supporting the development of high-performance hardware systems for enterprise storage solutions, collaborating across teams to ensure reliability, performance, and successful product launches.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deliver high-performance hardware systems, including schematic capture and PCB layout with focus on signal integrity.
- Lead hardware validation and qualification by defining, implementing, and automating comprehensive test plans for sub-systems.
- Act as the hardware technical lead for product introduction, collaborating with operations and manufacturing teams for seamless transition to production.
- Perform failure analysis and root cause investigations to improve system reliability and support customer escalations.
- Define technical specifications and create documentation for new hardware designs, including functional specifications and test reports.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in x86 architecture and interfaces, with the ability to qualify complex hardware at the electrical, signal integrity, protocol, and functional levels.
- Proven capability in high-speed hardware design and analysis, including hands-on experience with schematic capture, driving complex PCB layouts, and using tools like high-speed oscilloscopes and bus analyzers for debugging and analysis.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and BASH for test automation and system-level qualification.
- Experience in planning, implementing, and automating comprehensive hardware qualification and stress tests, including PTU, Mprime, and IOmeter, for enterprise-grade systems.
- Ownership of the full hardware lifecycle from design and validation to sustaining, collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams and external partners.
- Ability to design and deliver high-performance hardware systems, including schematic capture and PCB layout with a focus on signal integrity.
- Experience leading hardware validation and qualification, including defining, implementing, and automating comprehensive test plans for sub-systems like CPU, DDR memory, and key bus technologies such as PCIe and Ethernet.
- Ability to act as the hardware technical lead for product introduction, collaborating with Operations, Manufacturing Test, and JDM partners to ensure seamless transition of new storage sub-systems from engineering to mass production.
- Experience performing in-depth failure and root cause analysis during system hardening and supporting high-priority customer escalations.
- Ability to define technical specifications and documentation for new hardware designs, including functional specifications and test reports, providing clear, high-quality technical blueprints for the entire product team.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 175,000 - 263,000 USD
Role-based compensation and location-based salary determination
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Support for accommodations and accessibility during hiring process
Inclusive and diverse work environment fostering growth and development
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