SanDisk is seeking a Technologist, System Product Engineer to join our Advanced Product Development team. In this pivotal role, you will enable new technologies and drive product innovation, working in a fast-paced environment with significant responsibility and extensive collaboration across cross-functional teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead system-level product development, ensuring tight integration with system firmware, memory, logic, connectivity, and peripheral components.
- Design, develop, and implement comprehensive test strategies throughout the product lifecycle—from initial definition and New Product Introduction (NPI) to manufacturing and production ramp.
- Translate product and marketing requirements into optimized test flows and screening strategies that meet stringent OEM quality standards.
- Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams—including memory, logic, firmware, hardware, and software—to understand requirements and develop cost-effective, high-quality test solutions.
- Drive failure analysis for qualification and yield issues during the NPI phase, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.
- Analyze test data to provide actionable insights to design and manufacturing teams, enhancing product quality and yield.
- Serve as the functional lead for product development, partnering with Quality, Systems, Firmware, Marketing, and Operations to resolve issues and drive improvements.
- Define and implement test stack architecture, including critical decisions around firmware, software, and platform requirements.
- Deeply partner with Test Engineering (TE) to develop and maintain test programs using Automated Test Equipment (ATE) systems such as Advantest and Teradyne.
- Contribute to test firmware development and validation, aligning with system-level test and product requirements.
- Build and support test software infrastructure to enable automated, scalable testing across platforms.
- Leverage data analytics to extract insights from large-scale test and qualification datasets, driving strategic improvements.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering professional growth.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and conduct strategic analyses to support innovation and operational efficiency.
- Deliver regular, executive-level presentations on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in memory, storage, or system-level product, test, or validation engineering.
- Strong understanding of semiconductor IC design, including simulation, emulation, and manufacturing processes.
- Hands-on experience in system and memory testing, including failure analysis using tools such as oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and jammers.
- Proficiency in programming languages: C, C++, Python.
- Solid knowledge of high-speed interface protocols: NAND (Toggle/ONFI), DDR3–DDR5, LPDDR3–LPDDR5, GDDR3–GDDR6, HBM2/3/3E/4, PCIe Gen5/Gen6.
- Experience using Automated Test Equipment (ATE) systems such as Advantest and Teradyne.
- Background in firmware development, test software infrastructure, and data analytics.
- Strong understanding of CPU/GPU architectures and their interaction with memory and storage subsystems.
- Domain expertise in memory (DRAM/NAND) and storage technologies (SSD) for data center and AI platforms.
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
Technical Stack
- C, C++, Python
- Advantest ATE, Teradyne ATE
- NAND (Toggle/ONFI), DDR3–DDR5, LPDDR3–LPDDR5, GDDR3–GDDR6, HBM2/3/3E/4, PCIe Gen5/Gen6
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Product Engineering and Advanced Product Development teams. The role requires extensive collaboration with cross-functional teams including memory, logic, firmware, hardware, and software.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range applicable for jobs in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in those states.
- Equity: Eligible for Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program consisting of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents. RSU awards also available to eligible new hires.
- Paid vacation time
- Paid sick leave
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life, accident and disability insurance
- Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program
- Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit
- Applause Program
- Employee stock purchase plan
- SanDisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates in California, Colorado, and New York, or for remote work that can be performed in those states.
SanDisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
