R&D Hardware System Engineer

  • Chandler, AZ
  • Posted 26 days ago | Updated moments ago

Overview

Remote
On Site
Full Time

Skills

Research and Development
Data Management
Enterprise Software
Real-time
Data Analysis
Training
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Innovation
Pivotal
Oracle Data Mining
Object Data Manager
Collaboration
Software Development
Engineering Support
System Integration
Manufacturing
Knowledge Transfer
Customer Support
Servers
x86
BMC
IPMI
I2C
BIOS
UEFI
High Availability
Switches
SR-IOV
PCI Express
Data Storage
RAID
OCP
Computer Networking
Ethernet
InfiniBand
Remote Direct Memory Access
QoS
Cabling
Linux
Device Drivers
Management
Computer Hardware
Debugging
Vendor Management

Job Details

Description

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.

VAST Data's Hardware Team defines and maintains VAST's reference hardware architecture and oversees all JBOF development carried out by ODM partners. We qualify new servers, SSDs, and networking equipment to ensure they meet our performance and reliability standards. We collaborate closely with hardware vendors to shape new features and debug existing products. We work with business partners to ensure that VAST software operates correctly on their server platforms. Additionally, we provide knowledge transfer to software development teams, train customer support engineers, support VAST's hardware integration partners, and take responsibility for diagnosing and resolving hardware-related issues encountered by customers.

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: 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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