SandForce Inc
12950 Saratoga Ave
Saratoga, CA 95070-4658

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  SandForce, Inc. is hiring

 

  • Do you believe Solid State Storage is a hot topic of discussion in the computer industry?
  • Do you want to contribute towards revolutionizing the future of data storage?
  • Do you want to work in a company where everyone is excited to make a difference?
  • Do you want to work on a leading edge technological product solution?

 

Join us and change the future now!

jobs@sandforce.com

 

Design Managers (ASIC/Verification Teams)

SandForce has immediate openings for hands-on Design Managers for our ASIC and Verification teams. 

Responsibilities:

  • Manage ASIC RTL Design and Verification team developing complex digital circuits
  • Deliver high quality designs
  • Project planning, work estimation and schedule development
  • Track schedules and cross-functional deliverables

Requirements:

  • Must have successfully managed ASIC designs from architecture to production
  • Expert knowledge of fabless ASIC methodology
  • Dynamic and Aggressive management style
  • Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
  • Able to identify and manage risk
  • At least 4 years of experience as Design Manager
  • Experience managing projects with  teams of 10-15 engineers
  • BSEE required, MSEE preferred

Highly Desirable Skills:

  • Storage systems or disk drive technology background
  • Experience in consumer or enterprise storage field
  • SATA, SAS, FC or PCIe experience

 

                                                                                           

 

ASIC Design and Verification Engineers

SandForce is has immediate openings for ASIC Design and Verification Engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop microarchitecture
  • RTL coding and Verification
  • Synthesis and Timing closure

Requirements:

  • Strong problem solving skills
  • Must be familiar with ASIC design flow
  • Must have experience with lab debug
  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • BSEE required, MSEE preferred

 

Highly Desirable Skills:

  • Storage systems or disk drive technology background
  • Experience in consumer or enterprise storage field
  • SATA, SAS, FC or PCIe experience

 

 

Sr. Software/Firmware Engineer

SandForce has immediate openings for senior level Software/Firmware Engineers to

design, document and test high performance firmware algorithms for SoC Storage Processor.

Responsibilities:

  • Design & document high performance firmware algorithms to manage & interact with HW, handle errors and exception conditions.
  • Implement and verify firmware on embedded system.
  • Debug firmware and system issues.
  • Optimization of firmware and system to meet performance requirements

 

Requirements:

  • 5+ years relevant work experience
  • Must have demonstrated expertise in design and implementation of event driven real time firmware using C (or C++)
  • Understanding of RTOS concepts including task switching, deadlocks, and resource management issues
  • Firmware/System debug skills utilizing Debugger, Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer etc. in Lab environment
  • Experience developing and debugging high quality SoC solutions
  • BS in Software or electrical engineering
  • Strong communicator
  • Goal oriented and adherence to schedule
  • Ability to work as team player

 

Highly Desirable Skills:

  • System design expertise
  • Flash, Storage systems or disk drive technology background
  • Experience in consumer or enterprise storage field
  • SATA, SAS, SCSI, FC or PCIe experience

 

 

Senior Applications Engineers

SandForce has immediate openings for senior level Applications Engineers to support customer qualification and design efforts for a family of highly complex, industry-leading storage IC products. 

Responsibilities:

  • Expert technical customer account management
  • System analysis in both in-house & customer lab environments
  • Development of detailed technical documents
  • Customer design review and guidance
  • Errata investigation, work-around identification, customer issue management
  • Feature definition for new products
  • Technical presentations
  • System-level device characterization, including Signal Integrity (SI), etc.
  • Occasional travel required

 

Requirements:

  • 5 -15 years’ experience in Applications or System Engineering, or equivalent
  • Technical IC product support experience
  • OEM customer support background highly desirable
  • Technical documentation expertise
  • System design expertise, (PCB and system level)
  • Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer, & Oscilloscope skills
  • Ability to read schematics  (schematic design skills a plus)
  • Electronics Engineering academic background or equivalent
  • Strong verbal, written and presentation skills

 

Highly Desirable Skills:

  • Storage systems or disk drive technology background (consumer or enterprise)
  • Experience with serial link technology (SATA, SAS, FC, PCIe, etc)
  • Signal Integrity knowledge

 

 

To apply for a position, please e-mail your resume to: jobs@sandforce.com

What's New?

 

Moved to new address posted above.

Successfuly completed Series-B financing.

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SandForce Inc
12950 Saratoga Ave
Saratoga, CA 95070-4658

ph: (408) 725-3700
fax: (408) 725-2994