Intern SSD System Design Engineer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The SSD Architecture Team defines future requirements and use cases for SSDs and analyzes and troubleshoots performance and endurance capabilities of SSDs.

• Typical activities include designing, programming, debugging, and modifying models of firmware and ASICs to evaluate these changes and assess the performance, power, and endurance of the product.
• Team strongly encouraged to use AI tools to improve efficiency.
• The team initiates and analyzes changes to the architecture of the product.
• Additionally, performance debug tools are created, utilized, and refined to assist a cross‑functional team design industry‑leading SSD performance and features.
• Further, customer use cases, workloads, and features are understood and documented to support the development team.
• Competitor SSDs also analyzed to better understand target performance, features, and use cases. Be part of the team that sets the requirements and architecture of current and future SSDs.

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s with a projected graduation date in 2027 in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar.
• Understanding coding in Python, C and other common languages.
• Creative problem‑solving skills and trade‑off analysis.

• Good written and oral presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
• Modeling capability, either time‑based or probability based, is a plus.
• Systems understanding and experience a plus

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the Final date to receive applications will 05/27/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the Final date to receive applications. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the Final date to receive applications, we will update this posting with a new anticipated Final date to receive applications.

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