Pliant Technology has an immediate need for an ASIC Engineer Lead/Manager. You need to be hands-on with the team, leading them to success. Highly involved with the process and experience in the past with completing and leading projects. This position will work closely with Pliant System Architects, Lead ASIC Engineers, third party Design Engineers and the ASIC vendor to delivery cutting edge technology which will set new standards for performance and reliability in solid state data storage.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years experience as an ASIC design engineer with multiple designs successfully delivered
• Successful completion of one or more complex designs using Verilog RT
• Full-Chip RTL-to-Gate Synthesis project(s) with multiple clocks running up to 667 Mhz
• Thorough working knowledge of Synopsys EDA tools including Design Compiler, Primetime and Formality
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver on schedule and to specification
• ARM processors systems (AHB / APB Bus interfaces)
• System on a Chip architecture, Multiple embedded processor designs, Flash Memory
• Laboratory bring up and debug methodologies and equipment (e.g. oscillisopes, logic analyzers)
• Hi-speed data interfaces (e.g. 8b/10b SERDES, SAS, SATA, DDR2 controller design)
• ASIC test technologies (e.g. JTAG, BIST)
• BS EE or Equivalent
• Advanced Degree or research in memory technologies a plus.

Pliant is in need of a customer support representative to work with Supply Chain and Operations to ensure order fulfillment. This role will work in tandem with many areas of the company to help with customer satisfaction and to ensure that orders and requests are handled accurately and timely.

Responsibilities:

• Sales support to assigned accounts
• Managing backlog, entering purchase orders
• Manage/review customer forecast
• Coordinate with various company departments
• Support delivery
• Ensure Inventory availability
• Monitor order status and returns

Qualifications:

• 7+ years technical customer and sales support
• Order Entry
• PC Skills
• Knowledge of ERP Systems

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.  The ideal candidate is a motivated, results-oriented team player with enthusiasm for working in a rapid growth environment.  Position charter is 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

Qualifications

• 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) 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

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 along with SMART and other performance monitoring functions. Experience with development of SAS storage products preferred. Must have working knowledge of SCSI/SAS. Applicant 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 method
• 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

The successful candidate will be responsible for validating our EFDs. Using their QA expertise, script writing skills and knowledge of black box, white box testing, this candidate will design, implement and execute both automated and manual tests. The successful candidate will work with members of the Quality Assurance, Program Managers, Development and Customer Support teams.

Responsibilities

• Test case creation, execution and publish test results
• Test plan and test case documentation and test script maintenance
• Maintain systems in lab, update code, run regression tests
• Log bugs, follow up with developers for fixes, troubleshoot issues using in-house/3rd party tools
• Performance, longevity, and functional testing of our Pliant EFDs

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Quality Assurance practice and procedures
• 5+ years experience testing software especially storage and embedded systems applications
• Experience in testing complex high performance products, hard drives
• Should have clear understanding on HTML, XML, overall web framework and internet technology
• Have experience setting up systems in lab, work with different drivers, tools for testing
• Expert level QA automation skills using Perl, C, Shell and internally developed tools
• Expert level understanding on SQL and able to write complex queries
• Direct experience on Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms
• BS in Computer Science or EE minimum

Desired Skills

• Flash applications testing experience is highly desirable

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our exciting start-up environment. This person must have 7-10 years of experience and must be from the storage industry. Pliant's product is an enterprise flash drive so someone with disk drive product expertise is necessary.

You will be developing corporate quality processes and procedures consistent with ISO 9000 Scheme. You will be the technical resource for complaint to worldwide environmental policies. This role drives the defining product lifecycle complain to the policy. You will be conducting and reviewing final product quality audits as necessary. Driving corrective action processes and coordinating multidiscipline quality activities will also be part of your role. This role will work closely with operations quality establishing process and criteria for supplier and contract manufacturer.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 7-10 years in Quality roles in storage industry
• Previous extensive interaction with OEM customers necessary
• Proven Track record of failure analysis process methodology and FMEA techniques
• Quality tools: DOE, DFX, HALT, HASS
• Excellent working knowledge of statistical process control methods in a contract manufacturing environment is necessary
• Detailed understanding of Continuous improvement programs
• Proven Skills to work with all departments on application of quality principles
• Ability to work with others departments on implementing changes that improve products and customer satisfaction
• Knowledge of ISO 9000 and the certification process
• BSEE, BSME, BSQE or equivalent - advanced degree or additional quality and reliability certifications are highly desirable

Pliant is in need of a fast-moving, flexible Supply Chain Manager. You must have a hard drive storage background and be able to move quickly in an ever changing-start-up environment. Being able to implement order and create organization is also important.

You will be responsible for the sustaining and new product supply chain. This includes material and process quoting, sourcing, PO management, delivery schedules, cost management, expedite activity and over all vendor communications.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree required. Business, Industrial Engineering preferred
• 10 yrs + experience in high volume, high tech supply chain operations
• New product introduction experience a plus
• ERP and Microsoft Office skills required. Oracle/SAP experience a plus
• Proven success in PO management, driving on time delivery, negotiating costs, and sourcing
• Able to work in a high pace environment and have the ability to move freely between a development driven and production driven environment
• Process focused. Continuous improvement mentally
• Customer focused with strong communication skills
• Collaborative, creative problem solver

Pliant is in need of a Test Engineering Manager to lead current group of verification and test engineers. You will need to have a background in a storage product, likely disk drives. Knowledge of hardware, firmware and software processes important.  Good communication skills necessary to be able to interface with Executive Management as well as Top Tier OEM's. Experience growing a team with an expanding product.

Qualifications

• Responsible for managing EVT/DVT Software Test team
• Knowledge of SW, FW and HW test management
• Background in a Storage/Disk Drive product
• Develops EVT/DVT test plans
• Drives team progress of test plan creation
• In charge of test reports
• Key person in resolving test issues
• Experience working with outside vendors
• Work in conjunction with Development and Quality teams to insure product quality remains high
• Experience working with Top Tier OEM's
• Ability to implement formal processes for a growing team and company
• Experience previously managing a team
• 8-12 years total experience