Staff Engineer, Storage Business Enablement

**Please Note:** To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period. **Advancing the World’s Technology Together** Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future. We believe innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We’re dedicated to empowering people to be their true selves. Together, we’re building a better tomorrow for our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a Staff Storage Business Enabling Engineer to drive SSD business growth within the NeoCloud and Software-Defined Storage sectors. This role serves as a critical technical bridge between the SSD business and the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure ecosystem, focusing on identifying emerging storage architectures and translating customer workload requirements into strategic product opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for expanding the SSD business beyond traditional hyperscalers and OEMs by establishing new opportunities in AI infrastructure, disaggregated storage, and distributed storage ecosystems. By fostering strong technical engagements with NeoCloud providers and storage software companies, the engineer will influence product requirements and accelerate design-in wins to ensure long-term revenue growth through differentiated SSD solutions. Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy with 10% of domestic travel. Reports to: Principal Engineer, R&D Product Development Planning **What You’ll Do** - Develop and maintain technical relationships with NeoCloud, Storage Software, and AI infrastructure customers to understand their system architectures, workloads, and future storage requirements. - Identify emerging AI/ML storage use cases and translate customer pain points into SSD product and solution opportunities. - Analyze storage architectures including GPU servers, AI clusters, distributed storage, NVMe storage, caching, tiering, KV Cache, object storage, and disaggregated storage. - Work with customers to define SSD requirements including capacity, performance, endurance, latency, power, form factor, PCIe generation, NAND type, and software/firmware features. - Lead technical discussions, PoCs, evaluations, and design-in activities from early technology exploration through qualification and production. - Bridge customer requirements with internal SSD R&D, Product Marketing, Sales, Application Engineering, and Business teams to drive product roadmap and customer engagement. - Develop technical proposals, customer presentations, architecture analysis, benchmarking plans, and business cases to support SSD adoption. - Monitor technology and market trends in AI infrastructure, NeoCloud, storage software, and next-generation data center architectures and identify potential business opportunities. - Build competitive intelligence on SSD vendors, storage platforms, and emerging storage technologies and translate findings into actionable business strategies. - Support strategic customer engagements and executive-level discussions by providing technical insights and recommendations. - Establish scalable customer engagement models and best practices for expanding SSD business with emerging AI infrastructure and storage ecosystem partners. **What You Bring** - Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field with 10+ years experience. - 5+ years of experience in SSD, NAND, storage systems, server, data center, or related semiconductor/technology industries. - Strong understanding of NVMe SSDs, NAND Flash, PCIe, and modern data center storage architectures. - Experience working with hyperscalers, NeoCloud providers, server OEMs/ODMs, storage vendors, or storage software companies. - Ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts across hardware, software, and system architecture. - Experience in customer-facing technical roles, including technical presentations, PoCs, evaluations, and design-in activities. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate customer requirements into actionable product or business opportunities. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross functional and cross cultural teams. - You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people. - An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding. - You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches. - Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change. Key Competencies - **Technical Depth**: Strong knowledge of SSD/NAND technology and data center storage architecture. - **System-Level Thinking**: Ability to understand the interaction between SSD, CPU, GPU, memory, networking, storage software, and application workloads. - **Customer Orientation**: Ability to identify customers' underlying technical and business needs and proactively develop solutions. - **Business Acumen**: Ability to connect technical requirements and emerging technologies to revenue opportunities and business strategies. - **Technical Communication**: Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to engineers, architects, product teams, and executives. - **Cross-Functional Leadership**: Ability to influence and coordinate R&D, Product Marketing, Sales, Application Engineering, and Business teams without direct authority. - **Strategic Thinking**: Ability to anticipate technology and architecture changes and identify future SSD opportunities before they become mainstream. - **Execution:** Ability to drive customer engagements from initial technical discussion through PoC, qualification, design-in, and mass production. #LI-MD1 **What We Offer**The pay range below is for all roles at this level across all US locations and functions. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance. This is in addition to our diverse package of benefits centered around the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. In addition to the usual Medical/Dental/Vision/401k, our inclusive rewards plan empowers our people to care for their whole selves. An investment in your future is an investment in ours. **Give Back** With a charitable giving match and frequent opportunities to get involved, we take an active role in supporting the community. **Enjoy Time Away** You’ll start with 4+ weeks of paid time off a year, plus holidays and sick leave, to rest and recharge. **Care for Family** Whatever family means to you, we want to support you along the way—including a stipend for fertility care or adoption, medical travel support, and virtual vet care for your fur babies. **Prioritize Emotional Wellness** With on-demand apps and free confidential therapy sessions, you’ll have support no matter where you are. **Stay Fit** Eating well and being active are important parts of a healthy life. Our onsite Café and gym, plus virtual classes, make it easier. **Embrace Flexibility** Benefits are best when you have the space to use them. That’s why we facilitate a flexible environment so you can find the right balance for you. 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