Technologist, Product Development Engineering

About the role

Sandisk is seeking an accomplished and highly technical Technologist, Product Development Engineering to lead the development, qualification, and production readiness of next-generation memory and storage products. This role is critical in ensuring product quality, reliability, yield, and cost competitiveness across the full product lifecycle—from early silicon bring-up through high-volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead product development, characterization, and qualification activities for advanced memory and storage technologies from NPI through high-volume production
• Define and execute comprehensive validation strategies aligned with quality, reliability, and manufacturability objectives
• Own technical readiness assessments, identify risks, and drive mitigation plans to enable on-time and high-quality product releases
• Serve as a technical authority for complex electrical, functional, and system-level issues encountered during development and production
• Drive cross-functional corrective action plans and ensure lessons learned are embedded into future designs and workflows
• Architect and optimize test flows, coverage strategies, and screening methodologies using Automated Test Equipment (ATE)
• Develop automation, analysis, and infrastructure tools using Python, C, or C++
• Leverage large-scale test and manufacturing data to identify trends, accelerate debug, improve yield, and reduce test cost
• Apply foundational AI/ML techniques and statistical methods to enhance test optimization, anomaly detection, and failure analysis
• Collaborate globally with design, device, firmware, system, manufacturing, quality, and reliability teams
• Mentor engineers and technologists, strengthening technical fundamentals, ownership, and analytical rigor
• Influence technical decisions using strong engineering judgment and data-driven recommendations

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience in semiconductor product development, test engineering, reliability engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Deep expertise in NAND, DRAM, or SSD technologies, including device-level behavior, controller interaction, and system-level performance characteristics
• Proven proficiency with Automated Test Equipment (ATE) platforms such as Advantest or Teradyne
• Strong programming skills in Python, C, and/or C++, with hands-on experience in automation, test development, and large-scale data analysis
• Foundational knowledge of AI/ML concepts, with practical experience applying machine learning or statistical techniques to test optimization, yield improvement, failure analysis, or manufacturing data analytics
• Demonstrated experience driving Design for Test (DFT) methodologies into product design, validation, and manufacturing test flows

Qualifications

• Experience with advanced memory nodes and scaling challenges, including 3D NAND or advanced DRAM generations
• Strong understanding of high-speed interfaces such as JEDEC, ONFI, or Toggle
• Exposure to system-level validation, platform bring-up, or end-to-end storage solution integration
• Experience with yield ramping, manufacturing learning cycles, and test cost optimization in high-volume production environments
• Familiarity with applying advanced AI/ML techniques (e.g., anomaly detection, classification, regression, clustering) to large engineering datasets
• Experience building or deploying data platforms, dashboards, or analytics pipelines for tests, products, or manufacturing ecosystems
• Solid knowledge of firmware architecture, system-level design, and error detection, correction, and handling mechanisms (e.g., ECC, parity, retry flows)
• Proven ability to influence architectural decisions across products, test, firmware, and system boundaries
• Experience driving long-term technical roadmaps and cross-organizational strategic initiatives

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan

Pay

Salary Range: $159,763.00 - $264,650.00

Compensation & Benefits Details: An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.