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Pliant Technology based in Milpitas, CA is developing a new class of solid state drive (SSD) storage devices for the enterprise computing market. Pliant’s Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs) are based on a new and advanced controller design and software architecture to deliver exponentially higher levels of performance and reliability than hard disk drives and current generation enterprise SSDs, while meeting growing “Green IT” energy efficiency requirements in enterprise environments. Pliant was established by a team of executives and engineers from Fujitsu, Maxtor and Seagate with an unparalleled track record of success in the data storage industry.
Pliant is a fantastic opportunity for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit who wants to be at the frontier of an exciting paradigm changing technology product. We are defining the new cutting edge for Enterprise Storage and there's so much opportunity that you're guaranteed to contribute to significant and important projects! Backed by strong VC funding, we offer the creativity and freedom of a startup with leadership from successful industry veterans.
Our employees enjoy competitive salaries, stock options, 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision, contributed 401k, and more. Interested applicants should contact Dat Nguyen, dnguyen@plianttechnology.com. No agencies, consultants, or sponsorship opportunities are available at this time. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Firmware Developer
This position will design, implement and unit test embedded firmware for Pliant EFD solid-state storage products. Responsibilities include translating high level requirements and specifications into implementation plans, coding in C++ and assembly, system analysis, characterization and debug. Must be able to work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment as part of a distributed collaborative development team.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years embedded software/firmware development experience
- Thorough understanding of C++ and assembly language coding techniques for high reliability and performance
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft software development tools and methods
- A track record of significant individual achievement in software product development
- Distributed multi-processor architectures
- Data storage technology (e.g. SCSI, SAS, SATA, SMART)
- High performance I/O systems (e.g. storage, networking)
- Error correcting codes (ECC)
- Data encryption
- High reliability software systems
Field Applications Engineer
Summary: 8 - 10 years of experience with increasing responsibilities and a track record of successes in design wins and qualifications with major OEM customers in target markets
Charter: OEM design wins, qualifications and support
Responsibilities:
- Provide support for target accounts from prospect through qualification phases
- Development of tools, documentation and processes to enable customers to easily qualify and integrate products
- Develop support methodologies for industry-best support and integrate quality metrics into customer support/escalation processes
- Develop (with Quality) a customer focused ‘scorecard’ process
- Functional expertise for all products and key customer evaluation/qualification tools
- Primary technical liaison with customers during qualification process and for manufacturing/quality support
Background and Skills Required:
- Strong understanding of OEM customers for storage, content distribution, digital creation, HPC and other performance oriented markets. Recent experience and/or existing relationships with major OEM(s) is required.
- A solutions approach to selling from related hardware products (HDD, memory, switches, HBAs, etc.)
- Technical knowledge of storage market and interfaces (SAS, SATA, etc.).
- Strong customer and quality focus with experience building relationships for sustainable growth and outstanding customer relationships
- Excellent written/oral communication skills and problem solving techniques.
- English language proficiency required
- Education: Minimum BS degree; MS preferred
- Domestic and international travel required
- References from a major OEM customer will be requested
- Location: Milpitas (CA)
The ideal candidate is a motivated, results-oriented team player with enthusiasm for working in a rapid growth environment
