Senior Application Engineer

Location: 

Hangzhou, BinJiang District, CN

Posting Date:  Aug 21, 2025
Job ID:  12597

About our group:

  • Seagate China C3 Lab, a hub for application engineering in storage solutions across industries like Cloud, Video Surveillance, and NAS. 
  • We support key Chinese customers by facilitating product and technology qualifications, engaging in collaborative projects, and providing technical support and issue resolution. 
  • Our mission is to ensure customer success by accelerating time-to-market, delivering technical solutions, and supporting technology deployment.  
  • Our team is composed of talented engineers working on cutting-edge storage products and technologies, including the industry-leading HAMR technology. 

About the role - you will:

  • Conduct/support product pre-qualification, joint qualification, launch, and sustaining. 
  • Conduct/support storage application analysis, reporting, and issue resolution. 
  • Drive improvements in HDD product performance, compatibility and stability through software/hardware studies on hard disk drives and customer systems/applications. 
  • Collaborate closely with customer-facing teams and cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex product issues and complete projects with customers. 
  • Storage related tool/script development and application testing/measurement. 

About you:

  • Good at both Chinese and English. 
  • A quick learner with excellent teamwork abilities and a willingness to share knowledge. 
  • Enthusiastic, self-disciplined, and innovative with strong logical and positive thinking. 
  • Bachelor's or above degree in Electronics or Computer Science or related majors and/or equivalent. 

Your experience includes:

  • Extensive experience in software or firmware development/testing within the storage industry, particularly related to Cloud, Video Surveillance, NAS, etc. 
  • Proficient programming skills in Linux Shell, Python, and C. 

You Might Also Have: 

  • Knowledge of Linux I/O stack and experience in I/O performance tuning. 
  • Familiarity with AI technologies. 

Location:

Seagate first entered the Chinese market in 1995, and in the more than 20 years that followed, has committed itself to remain at the forefront in the innovation and development in the country’s storage industry. With its strong technical knowledge and experience, Seagate has worked with many customers and business partners to help capture market opportunities – both domestically and overseas. Now the company operates four branch offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu; a surveillance center, and a data recovery center in Hangzhou.

 

Location: Hangzhou, China
Travel: Up to 10%


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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With more than four decades of storage innovation, Seagate empowers humanity to thrive in the data age and helps people and businesses navigate the ever-expanding data landscape. 

We craft precision-engineered, cutting-edge solutions that help the world store and manage exponential data growth.

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