Flash Controller Design Engineer

Job Description

Position: Flash Controller Design Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

Employment: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop pre-silicon flash-controller blocks/subsystems for NAND-based SSD controller products
• Drive end-to-end design flow covering requirements, architecture, micro-architecture, RTL/design implementation support, integration, debug, and design closure
• Work on controller subsystems associated with NAND flash management, data movement, reliability, and performance optimization
• Perform design debug, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution during pre-silicon development
• Collaborate with architecture, verification, firmware, DFT, and post-silicon teams for feature readiness and smooth productization
• Support design reviews, interface definition, and subsystem-level integration for storage-controller SoCs
• Contribute to robust and scalable controller design for enterprise/data-center SSD use cases

Must-Have Skills

• Strong experience in pre-silicon design for flash-controller, storage-controller, or ASIC/SoC products
• Hands-on expertise in flash-controller design and design debug
• Solid understanding of complete end-to-end SoC/ASIC design flow
• Strong knowledge of NAND and Flash protocols/interfaces
• Experience working on performance, reliability, and architecture-sensitive controller designs
• Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills