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title: Hardware Engineer at Ddn in Wheat Ridge, CO
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| **Company** | Ddn |
| **Location** | Wheat Ridge, CO |
| **Salary** | $100K/yr - $120K/yr |
| **Type** | Full Time |
| **Posted** | Sep 24, 2026 |

## Is this job real?

**Ghost job check:** B · Low risk. Probably a real opening.

## Visa sponsorship

- **H-1B:** Ddn sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 27 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4).
- **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Ddn.

## Pay for similar jobs

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## Description

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.
## Skills

- Debugging
- Scripting
- System Administration
- Go
- Interest Rate Swaps
- Triage
- Willingness To Learn
- Data Integrity
- Hardware Bring-up
- NVMe
- Diagnostics
- Attention to Detail
- Linux
- BIOS/Firmware Development
- Firmware

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