Principal Industry Standards Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead the establishment and implementation of KIOXIA’s standardization strategy across the Enterprise, Client, and Datacenter storage sectors.

• Act as a key technical contributor for KIOXIA in standards committees, working groups, and technical forums.

• Spearhead the development, submission, and progression of technical proposals within pertinent standards organizations.

• Facilitate internal technical alignment among Engineering, Marketing, and Product teams.

• Examine and assess external technical proposals while guiding internal position-setting and response strategies.

• Collaborate with customers, suppliers, ecosystem partners, and competitors to shape standards direction and foster consensus.

• Oversee standards documentation, proposal tracking, and internal knowledge dissemination.

• Enhance KIOXIA’s industry profile and technical leadership through active involvement in standards initiatives.

• Identify emerging standards bodies, technologies, and opportunities for KIOXIA to take on leadership roles.

• Organize and lead regular internal standards review meetings.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of pertinent experience in storage, SSD, or related technologies.

• At least 5 years of direct involvement in industry standardization efforts.

• Proven leadership in crafting and presenting technical proposals within formal standards organizations.

• Established experience representing an organization at external technical or standards forums.

• Strong analytical skills to evaluate customer needs, competitive technologies, and internal engineering limitations.

• Capability to autonomously define priorities, create execution plans, and achieve results.

• Proficiency in coordinating cross-functional teams to address technical challenges.

• Robust project management abilities with the skill to independently prioritize, plan, execute, and complete multiple initiatives.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.

• Preferred experience in actively participating in standards organizations such as PCI Express, SNIA, DMTF, and NVM Express.

• Preferred familiarity with antitrust and anticompetitive regulations regarding standardization activities.

• In-depth understanding of electrical, mechanical, and thermal requirements for advanced storage devices is preferred.

• Preferred knowledge of storage architectures across client, server, enterprise, and datacenter environments.

• Working knowledge of SSD architecture and system I/O stacks is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Excellent medical and non-medical benefits.

• 401(k) matching.

• Pet insurance.

• Generous PTO allotment.

• Holiday shutdown.

• Flexible work options.

• Investment in your growth.

• Opportunities for career advancement and personal development training.

• Open-minded management approach.

• Empowering employees by listening to and addressing ideas, issues, and approaches.

• A diverse environment encompassing various cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.