The Principal Engineer, AI Transformation is a senior technical leader and individual contributor embedded within Solidigm’s Firmware Organization. This role serves as the technical right-hand to the Head of AI Transformation, responsible for evaluating emerging AI technologies, designing practical adoption strategies, and leading the end-to-end integration of AI capabilities into firmware engineering workflows. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in both large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems alongside a strong foundation in embedded systems development, enabling them to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI innovation and the rigorous demands of storage firmware engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and define a firmware AI roadmap aligned to business priorities, engineering efficiency, and measurable impact.
- Prototype, validate, and scale AI tools and workflows for code generation, review, testing, bug triage, and documentation in firmware engineering.
- Design and deploy agentic AI, RAG systems, and domain-specific LLM pipelines using firmware knowledge and defect data.
- Build AI-assisted tooling across CI/CD, IDEs, and build systems to improve quality, reduce review time, and accelerate development cycles.
- Identify high-value AI use cases across the firmware lifecycle, including simulation, modeling, regression testing, coverage analysis, and validation automation.
- Serve as the firmware organization’s AI technical leader, guiding architecture, defining best practices, coaching engineers, and driving AI upskilling.
- Partner across AI Platform, Security, Legal, IT, DevOps, and executive leadership to define success metrics and ensure secure, compliant AI adoption.
- Architect secure, scalable AI infrastructure and build external partnerships with vendors and research institutions to advance AI-driven firmware engineering.
Candidates must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Requirements listed below would be obtained through a combination of schoolwork/classes/research and/or relevant previous job and/or internship experiences.
Minimum Requirements:
- 10+ years of software or embedded engineering experience, with deep expertise in C/C++ development for embedded systems, RTOS environments, or storage firmware.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, deploying, or integrating large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems in production or near-production environments.
- Experience designing AI-assisted developer tooling (code generation, review automation, test synthesis) that integrates with existing CI/CD and engineering workflows.
- Deep understanding of firmware validation techniques including unit testing, integration testing, simulation frameworks, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineering leaders and translate complex AI capabilities into pragmatic engineering strategies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in storage technology, SSD firmware, NAND flash systems, or semiconductor engineering environments.
- Experience with MLOps platforms and AI infrastructure (e.g., model serving, evaluation pipelines, vector databases, LLM gateways).
- Familiarity with AI-driven EDA tools, hardware design automation, or silicon lifecycle engineering.
- Contributions to open-source AI or firmware engineering projects, or publications in relevant technical communities.
- Experience with advanced prompt engineering patterns, multi-agent system design, or LLM-based software engineering research (SWE-bench, etc.).
This position is also eligible to participate in Solidigm's restricted stock unit (RSU), restricted cash unit (RCU), and cash bonus programs. In addition, Solidigm offers a benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, supplemental life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, and a company match on eligible 401(k) plan contributions.
The compensation range for this role is $196,240 - $314,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
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