Principal Engineer - Core Platform Storage

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership in the Core Platform Storage domain. This role involves driving architecture, design, development, and enablement of storage software across multiple Qualcomm chipsets and operating systems. The ideal candidate will combine deep hands-on expertise with systemlevel thinking, crossfunctional leadership, and the ability to influence platformwide storage direction.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership Architecture
  • Drive storage software architecture and design across nextgeneration Qualcomm multiprocessor chipsets.
  • Work closely with Product Management and Program Management to define new feature requirements, scope deliverables, and drive key performance metrics.
  • Lead innovation in storage architectures across UFS3/4/5, eMMC, NVMe, NAND, SPINOR, SD/SDIO, and related technologies.
  • Provide technical guidance on performance, scalability, reliability, and power optimization across storage subsystems.
  • Influence systemlevel design decisions spanning hardware, firmware, and software.
• Software Design Development
  • Design, develop, and support device drivers and storage frameworks across multiple operating systems including Linux, Windows, and RTOS.
  • Own and contribute to Linux kernel storage subsystems, including block I/O path, schedulers, memory management interactions, and DMA.
  • Design and develop file systems, flash management layers, and storage utilities for embedded and external storage devices.
  • Develop and maintain complex data structures and flash algorithms to optimize storage performance and endurance.
  • Drive Linux upstream and opensource contributions (Linux, UEFI, Zephyr), ensuring longterm maintainability and standards compliance.
• Debug, Support Quality
  • Lead failure triage, rootcause analysis, and systemlevel debugging across platforms.
  • Leverage kernel debugging tools such as debugfs, ftrace, blktrace, and other instrumentation frameworks.
  • Ensure high software quality across the full software development life cycle, from requirements and design through commercialization and postlaunch support.
• CrossFunctional Collaboration
  • Collaborate closely with hardware designers, validation teams, customer engineering, and dependent software teams.
  • Act as a technical point of contact for internal and external stakeholders on storagerelated features and issues.
  • Support customer enablement and issue resolution for complex storage use cases.
• Team Project Leadership
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers.
  • Support people management activities for ~56 engineers; prior experience leading larger teams is a strong plus.
  • Drive project planning, task breakdown, estimation, prioritization, and execution tracking.
  • Ensure delivery predictability, quality, and risk mitigation across projects.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in ECE, EEE, CSE, or a related field.
• 1214 yearsof experience in embedded systems and device driver development.
• Strong handson experience with storage technologies, including:
  • UFS, eMMC, sd/sdio
  • NAND, spinor
  • NVMe, SDXpress
• Deep expertise in embedded C programming, including:
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Systemlevel programming (file handling, multithreading, synchronization)
• Strong experience with OS kernel and device driver development(Linux / Windows / RTOS).
• Solid understanding of:
  • Storage software stacks and block I/O path
  • Page cache, buffer cache, virtual memory
  • MMU and DMA concepts
• Handson experience with Linux Block Subsystemand I/O schedulers
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or working closely with Linux upstream, UEFI, or Zephyrcommunities.
• Experience with real-time and embedded operating systems, including Zephyr RTOS.
• Exposure to multiSoC platform enablementand customerfacing storage issues.
• Prior people leadership or mentoring experience at Staff/Senior Staff level.

Senior Staff Level Expectations

• Recognized technical expert in storage software and architecture.
• Drives platformlevel impactacross multiple products and teams.
• Operates effectively in highambiguity problem spaceswith minimal direction.
• Influences technical direction beyond immediate team boundaries.

Acts as a technical multiplier through mentorship and architectural leadership

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.