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Hardware Engineer

Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States

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Location
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$100K – $120K a year
Posted
6 weeks ago

About the role

We are seeking a hands-on Platform 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.

You will work closely with senior engineers to ensure systems are correctly configured, stable, and performant: from BIOS settings and firmware versions to OS behavior and device health.

What You’ll Do

  • 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.

What will you bring to DDN

  • 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.

Source

Posted by DDN on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 00:47 UTC; the original is the reference.

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