KIOXIA Europe GmbH
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Principal Industry Standards Engineer
Location
California
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$155.4K - $259.0K / year
Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Lead the definition and execution of KIOXIA’s standardization strategy across Enterprise, Client, and Datacenter storage segments
• Represent KIOXIA as a principal technical contributor in standards committees and working groups
• Drive the creation, submission, and advancement of technical proposals
• Lead internal technical alignment across Engineering, Marketing, and Product teams
• Analyze and evaluate external technical proposals
• Coordinate with customers, suppliers, and ecosystem partners
• Maintain ownership of standards documentation and proposal tracking
• Strengthen KIOXIA’s industry visibility through participation and contribution
• Identify emerging standards bodies and technologies
• Plan and facilitate recurring internal standards review meetings
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience in storage, SSD, or related technologies
- Minimum of 5 years of direct participation in industry standardization initiatives
- Demonstrated leadership in developing and presenting technical proposals within formal standards organizations
- Strong analytical skills to assess customer requirements and competitive technologies
- Competency in coordinating cross-functional teams
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Active participation in standards organizations such as PCI Express, SNIA, DMTF, and NVM Express preferred
- Familiarity with antitrust regulations for standardization activities
- Deep understanding of electrical, mechanical, and thermal requirements for advanced storage devices preferred
- Familiarity with storage architectures across client, server, enterprise, and datacenter environments preferred
- Working knowledge of SSD architecture and system I/O stacks preferred.
Benefits
- Excellent medical and non-medical benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Pet insurance
- Generous PTO allotment
- Holiday shutdown
- Flexible work options