Senior Hardware Design Engineer, Hyperscale Hardware
Pure StorageSanta Clara, California
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
$233k - $350k
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Job Description
A Senior Hardware Design Engineer responsible for designing, qualifying, and troubleshooting high-performance storage hardware solutions for hyperscale customers, collaborating across teams to ensure robust and efficient product development.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead hardware design, documentation, validation, and qualification of storage hardware for hyperscale storage solutions
- Troubleshoot and debug hardware issues, perform failure analysis, and support system hardening and customer needs
- Define, implement, and automate hardware validation and qualification testing processes
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, manufacturing, and support teams to integrate storage sub-systems into platforms and guide production
Requirements
- Proven experience in hardware design, x86 architectures, and related interfaces, including qualifying hardware at the electrical, signal integrity, protocol, and functional levels.
- Track record of planning, implementing, and automating hardware qualification processes, including selecting x86 subcomponents, NVMe drives, and power supplies.
- Strong understanding of major bus technologies such as PCIe, UPI, XGMI, Ethernet, and proficiency with high-speed oscilloscopes and bus analyzers to perform trace capture and analysis.
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Python and BASH for test development and workflow automation.
- Ability to lead hardware design and qualification efforts, including electrical design, documentation, validation, and qualification of hardware for storage sub-systems and platforms.
- Experience in troubleshooting and debugging testbeds, internal hardware issues, and external escalations, performing failure and root cause analysis to support system hardening and customer needs.
- Ability to define, implement, and automate hardware validation and qualification tests, and to improve design and qualification processes to enhance efficiency, consistency, and product robustness.
- Experience working closely with hyperscale customers and ODM/JDM partners to understand their requirements and tailor solutions accordingly.
- Excellent collaboration skills to work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, manufacturing, and support teams to integrate new storage sub-systems into existing and new platforms, guiding them to production.
- Educational background or equivalent experience in a relevant technical field related to hardware design and development.
- Willingness to work onsite at the Santa Clara, CA office in accordance with company policies.
Benefits & Perks
Annual base salary range of 233,000 - 350,000 USD
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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