Principal Engineer, Technology Development Engineering

About the Role

We are seeking a Principal Engineer, Technology Development Engineering to join our innovative team in Milpitas, United States. In this pivotal role, you will lead cutting-edge technology development initiatives, driving semiconductor advancements and shaping the future of our industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop future 3D NAND technologies and contribute to long-term technology roadmaps.
• Define and evaluate new device architectures, scaling strategies, process innovations, and operating methodologies for advanced memory products.
• Explore novel materials, device structures, and operating algorithms to improve performance, reliability, power efficiency, density, and cost.
• Identify technology limitations through first-principles understanding of device physics and develop innovative solutions to overcome them.
• Characterize NAND flash devices and analyze performance, endurance, retention, and reliability behavior.
• Develop and optimize device trims and operating conditions to push the boundaries of flash memory performance and reliability.
• Collaborate across device, process, design, system, and product engineering teams to bring new concepts from research into development.

Requirements

REQUIRED: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or a related discipline plus 3 years of experience.

• Strong foundation in semiconductor device physics, fabrication processes, electrical characterization, and reliability.

Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate fundamental understanding into practical solutions.
• Experience in memory device characterization, optimization, and performance/power tuning is a plus.
• Knowledge of non-volatile memory technologies (e.g., NAND flash) and/or emerging memory technologies is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of DRAM and/or High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a plus.
• Programming and scripting experience in Python, C/C++, or similar languages.
• Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to tackle challenging problems beyond your immediate area of expertise.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional engineering environment.

Pay

The salary range for this role is applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in these states. The range may be modified in the future.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time and paid sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and 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 benefits.
• Applause Program.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Participation in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, providing incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.
• Eligibility to participate in the annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents (not all roles are eligible).
• RSU awards available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.