Hardware Engineer
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Job description
About the Position
We are seeking a hands-on Hardware Engineer to support the deployment, validation, and operation of large-scale solutions. This role focuses on system bring-up, hardware and firmware validation, and operational reliability across storage, compute, and networking infrastructure.
Location
Wheat Ridge Office
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Engineering - Infinia Engineering
Compensation
- $100K – $120K
Responsibilities
- Perform system bring-up and validation, including BIOS configuration, firmware updates, and OS-level checks.
- Configure and verify platform settings (BIOS, BMC, OS) to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and consistency standards.
- Execute and validate firmware updates across components, including NVMe drives, NICs, and system firmware.
- Identify and troubleshoot issues related to:
- Device initialization and visibility.
- Firmware mismatches or upgrade failures.
- Misconfigurations impacting performance or stability.
- Understand, define, and test procedures for:
- Drive swaps and rebuilds.
- Data integrity and system health checks.
- Minimizing impact to running systems.
- Monitor and validate storage device health, including basic performance characteristics and failure indicators.
- Work with Linux systems to verify configuration, collect diagnostics, and assist in debugging issues.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to escalate and help triage complex cross-layer issues.
- Contribute to documentation and standardization of bring-up, validation, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform-focused engineering roles.
- Comfortable working directly with hardware and firmware, including BIOS, BMC, and device-level tools.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with storage and networking fundamentals (NVMe, NICs, basic I/O concepts).
- Experience performing and supporting firmware updates, with awareness of risk and failure scenarios.
- Good scripting skills; familiarity with Go is a plus.
- Strong attention to detail, able to verify configurations and catch subtle issues.
- Willingness to learn and grow into deeper system, performance, and debugging responsibilities.
- Curiosity about why systems perform the way they do: investigate, rather than just run scripts blindly.
We Offer
- Competitive salary range: $100K - $120K
- Full-time employment
- On-site position in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
About the Company
At DDN, we are committed to delivering high-performance storage solutions. Join our team and contribute to the development and maintenance of cutting-edge technology.
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DataDirect Networks (DDN.com) is a world leader in massively-scalable storage platforms and solutions engineered for the Big Data and Cloud era. Our storage, processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high-data growth environments to achieve the highest levels of systems performance, scalability and efficiency.In solving today’s Big Data lifecycle management challenges at scale, DDN enables organizations to maximize the value of their information, everywhere. As the technology behind the world’s leading data-driven organizations, our customers include online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production houses and security and intelligence agencies.
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