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This position is for a Server Storage Senior System Engineer for Storage Products within Dell EMC’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. The Server Storage Engineering Team is closely tied to most of the development organizations, including the platforms, OS teams, systems management, disk drives, and storage enclosures.

The position provides the opportunity for contributing to and setting the technical and design direction for a storage subsystem in Dell’s server storage team, and responsibility for its implementation into the larger server and storage product lines.

This includes feature definition, development process execution and improvement, integration testing, fault isolation and resolution, manufacturing release, and resolution of design issues found in the field and during development.

This is a technical development team role that requires strong verbal and written communication; understanding and defining complex system/solution architectures; and demonstrating engineering expertise and rigor through debug of complex issues for enterprise solutions.

Our customers’ system requirements are usually highly complex. Bringing together hardware and software systems design, Systems Engineering operates at the very cutting edge of technology to meet them. We design and develop electronic and electro-mechanical or systems-orientated products, conduct feasibility studies on engineering proposals and prepare installation, operation and maintenance specifications and instructions. We’re proud to deliver programs and products to the highest quality standards, on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Perform activities necessary to take a design from concept to production which may include: architecture definition, schematic reviews, design reviews, debug, test, issue resolution and factory support.
• The candidate will be responsible to help design new innovative server storage solutions and help with integrating the storage subsystem with other subsystems within the server products.
• Debug and drive complex product issues to closure with true root cause and a strong sense of urgency and ownership
• Partner and work across organizations and sites to ensure success in the business
• Communicate cross-functionally, externally, and to all levels of upper management the status of all relevant management information
• Exert influence cross-functionally to meet goals and support the team
• Interaction with extended teams locally and at other Dell Development centers worldwide
• Work with suppliers to meet technical deliverables and provide intuitive and innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• BS or MS Engineering degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with 5+ years relevant experience.
• Design and product development experience with Enterprise Storage products. Strong working knowledge of key RAID concepts such as: striping, caching, parity, failure & recovery, redundancy, storage performance, and hardware acceleration.
• Strong level of engineering curiosity, high attention to detail and natural debug skills.
• Ability to: identify potential product weakness; provide design guidance and recommendations for improvements to subsequent redesigns; participate in cross-functional development efforts.
• Solution level knowledge of firmware; device drivers; server and storage management strategies; and application of experience in an enterprise development team with ability to drive complex technical issues to root cause.
• Candidate should have strong embedded systems understanding and it’s desired to have Windows, VMWare, and/or Linux OS debug skills. 
• Candidate should have working knowledge of PCI-e, SAS, SATA, and/or SCSI protocols. 
• Prior experience with high availability storage subsystems is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to work under and deliver to date-driven schedules; write and analyze requirements, functional specifications, design specifications, test plans, and documentation.
• Candidate should have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The position is not a programming role, although solid concepts of high level programming languages (Python and C/C++) is recommended.
• Experience with virtual environments (VMs)
• Must have good analytical and organizational skills
• Possess a positive attitude in stressful situations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment with frequent software releases
• Ability to adapt to and work with numerous functional organizations
• Demonstrate commitment to quality