Cloudian Inc
Hardware Program Engineer — Storage & Security
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About Cloudian
Cloudian builds HyperStore, a mature object storage platform deployed by hundreds of service providers as well as enterprise customers worldwide. We're now extending that platform to be the storage layer for AI, with a particular focus on inferencing. Our storage is NVIDIA certified and supports S3 RDMA, so it is suitable for high-performance use cases. We are an active participant in “next generation” AI storage projects, such as NVIDIA STX. With AI requiring increasing amounts of data, we are very well positioned as we can scale in capacity and performance, we provide all-flash storage as well as more cost-effective hybrid (flash+HDD), and we integrate effectively into the public cloud.
Our IP is software, but most customers deploy us as an appliance — which is where this role comes in.
About the Job
This role is primarily hardware program execution — bringing new ODM-based storage products to market, driving qualification, and managing our system integrator relationships — with a real security component layered in: CVE response, working the backlog from our AppSec tooling, and keeping our Common Criteria certification current. Roughly 60% hardware, 40% security.
This is a program manager/engineer role, not a product manager role. You're driving execution across engineering, ODM vendors, and integrators to get products qualified and shipped — not owning product roadmap or strategy. You need to be technically competent enough to get into the details yourself, not just coordinate people who are.
Core Responsibilities
- New Product Introduction (ODM): Work with ODM partners to bring new storage appliance products to market — from spec through qualification to release.
- Integrator Relationships: Own the technical relationship with our system integrators — covering qualification, integration testing, and issue resolution.
- Hardware Qualification: Drive hardware and platform qualification as needed — drives, controllers, chassis, whatever the product requires. This is hands-on ownership, not oversight from a distance.
- General Hardware Execution: Pick up whatever the hardware side needs — vendor evaluation, BOM work, supply chain coordination, troubleshooting. Expect this to shift as priorities do.
- CVE Response: Monitor, triage, and assess the applicability of published CVEs against our software and dependency stack; coordinate patch timelines with engineering owners.
- AppSec Triage: Own the backlog generated by our AppSec scanning tool (Aikido) — validate findings, prioritize, and drive remediation with engineering.
- Common Criteria Certification: Maintain testing evidence for our Common Criteria certification; work with the certification lab and internal engineering to close gaps.
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Requirements
This role is not the right fit if:
- Your storage experience is limited to consuming cloud storage services (S3, Azure Blob, GCS), with no on-prem, appliance, or physical hardware exposure. This is a hard requirement — there are no exceptions to it.
- You've never owned hardware qualification or hardware selection at meaningful scale, on the ODM/vendor side or the data-center side — participating in vendor calls someone else owned, or ordering pre-configured boxes off a catalog, isn't the same thing.
- You're looking for a role that owns product roadmap or strategy. This is program execution — driving things to completion, not deciding what gets built. You will be involved in product strategy discussions, but that is not going to be your main focus.
- You can't hold your own in Linux or basic scripting — you'll need it for the security half of the role.
- You don't use AI tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar) as a normal part of how you work. We expect this as standard practice for getting things done faster, not as an experiment you're trying out.
We're looking for:
- ODM / New Product Introduction: Hands-on experience bringing hardware products to market with ODM partners — spec, build, qualify, ship.
- Data Center Hardware Selection (Alternate Path): An IT/infrastructure background is a real alternate path here — if you've run vendor bake-offs, RFPs, or hardware qualification and selection for a data center fleet at meaningful scale, that experience translates. Standard catalog procurement without real evaluation or testing behind it does not.
- Integrator Experience: Direct experience working with system integrators or channel partners on qualification, integration, or deployment.
- Versatility: Comfortable owning “whatever needs to be done” — quals, vendor escalations, gaps nobody else has picked up — without needing the role scoped narrowly for you.
- Storage & Hardware Understanding: Real, hands-on grasp of storage systems and hardware — server platforms, drives, controllers — not adjacent exposure.
- Security Baseline: Willing and able to own CVE triage and AppSec backlog work directly. You don't need deep security specialization, but you need genuine technical competence — not a process role sitting on top of someone else's judgment.
- AI-Fluent Execution: You use AI tools as a working habit — for triage, research, drafting, debugging, whatever the task calls for — to get more done faster. This is baseline expected practice here, not a bonus skill.
- Certification Experience: Direct experience with Common Criteria, FIPS, or FedRAMP evidence/testing is a plus, not required.
- AI Infrastructure (Nice to Have): Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure — GPU servers, NVIDIA-based platforms, or similar accelerated computing hardware — is a plus given where our roadmap is headed, not required.
- Program Execution: A track record of driving cross-functional execution to completion — program manager, technical project manager, or engineer, not necessarily a “Product Manager” title.
- Tools: Jira; Aikido or comparable AppSec scanning tools a plus.
- Education: BS in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Travel: Up to 25%, for ODM, integrator, and partner engagements.
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- Walk me through a specific server or storage hardware platform you selected or qualified — drive interface, controller, chassis. What was your actual role in that decision, and what was the hardest trade-off you had to make?
- Name an ODM, OEM, or system integrator you worked with directly — or, if your background is data-center side, a vendor bake-off or RFP you ran. What was the scope of that relationship, and describe a time something went wrong.
- Walk me through a specific CVE, vulnerability, or AppSec finding you personally triaged. How did you decide whether it actually applied, and what call did you make?
- Tell me about a time you had to take on something completely outside your normal scope, with no one else to hand it to. What did you do, and how did you get up to speed?
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