Senior Flash SSD Firmware Engineer

Salary Range: €66,000.00 To €78,000.00 Annually Established in 1997, Softeq was built from the ground up to specialize in new product development and R&D, tackling the most difficult problems in the tech sphere. Now we've expanded to offer early-stage innovation and ideation plus digital transformation business consulting. Our superpower is to deliver all of this under one roof on a global scale. So let's get started and build a better future together! Softeq is looking for a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer with hands-on experience developing low-level firmware for NAND flash controllers, SSDs, UFS/eMMC devices, and storage subsystems. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Flash Translation Layer (FTL), NAND drivers, ECC, and performance optimization. This position requires close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-performance, reliable, and power-efficient storage firmware for next-generation flash devices. We are expecting to grow our team and begin new projects in the next 1-2 months, As such, we’re starting to accept resumes and process chosen candidates. Feel free to apply! Location: Vilnius, Lithuania (employment or B2B contract, hybrid/remote work) Warsaw, Poland (B2B contract, fully remote) Essential Skills General Bare-metal and RTOS firmware development experience in industrial or embedded electronics; Strong C and C++ programming skills; Python experience for tooling and automation; Experience developing test scripts for SSD devices and understanding SSD testing methodologies. Flash Storage & FTL Expertise Flash Translation Layer (FTL): page/block mapping, hybrid FTL architectures; Bad block management, metadata handling, and journaling; Power-loss protection mechanisms and metadata recovery processes; ECC engines (BCH, LDPC) and redundancy/error-correction schemes; NAND timing analysis, ONFI/Toggle NAND protocols, and low-level NAND interfaces; Test framework implementation for PC simulated firmware. Softeq communicates only from @ softeq.com email addresses. We never request payments or fees for any reason during hiring — including trainings or courses to be completed, equipment, onboarding, or background checks — and we will not ask for banking information, cryptocurrency or gift cards. If you receive a message from any other domain or requesting payment, do not respond and report it to [email protected]