Applications Engineer Job - SSD's

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

• 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 ÔscorecardÕ 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

• 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

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Our Client's story

They are a later stage startup pioneering the development a new class of solid state drive (SSD) storage devices for the enterprise computing market. 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. They were established by a team of executives and engineers with an unparalleled track record of success in the data storage industry.