Senior Flash SSD Firmware Engineer

Established in 1997, Softeq was built from the ground up to specialize in new product development and R&D, tackling the most difficult problems in the tech sphere. Now we've expanded to offer early-stage innovation and ideation plus digital transformation business consulting. Our superpower is to deliver all of this under one roof on a global scale. So let's get started and build a better future together!

Softeq is looking for a Senior Flash SSD Firmware Engineer with hands-on experience developing low-level firmware for NAND flash controllers, SSDs, UFS/eMMC devices, and storage subsystems. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Flash Translation Layer (FTL), NAND drivers, ECC, and performance optimization.

This position requires close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-performance, reliable, and power-efficient storage firmware for next-generation flash devices.

We are expecting to grow our team and begin new projects in the next 1-2 months, As such, we’re starting to accept resumes and process chosen candidates. Feel free to apply!

Location:

• Vilnius, Lithuania
• Warsaw, Poland

Essential Skills

General

• Bare-metal and RTOS firmware development experience in industrial or embedded electronics;
• Strong C and C++ programming skills; Python experience for tooling and automation;
• Experience developing test scripts for SSD devices and understanding SSD testing methodologies.

Flash Storage & FTL Expertise

• Flash Translation Layer (FTL): page/block mapping, hybrid FTL architectures;
• Bad block management, metadata handling, and journaling;
• Power-loss protection mechanisms and metadata recovery processes;
• ECC engines (BCH, LDPC) and redundancy/error-correction schemes;
• NAND timing analysis, ONFI/Toggle NAND protocols, and low-level NAND interfaces;
• Test framework implementation for PC simulated firmware.

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