Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff Product Development Engineer to lead product development and customer technical engagement for Sandisk’s NAND wafer and component product line. Our team focuses on productizing Sandisk NAND technology into customer storage solutions across data center and edge applications. This role combines deep NAND technical expertise, customer engagement, and cross-functional leadership. The successful candidate will work closely with global customers and internal engineering teams to develop state-of-the-art NAND products, align product capabilities with system requirements, and enable successful customer qualification and product deployment. Key Responsibilities • Serve as the technical lead for NAND wafer and component products, driving product excellence and influencing product roadmaps, features, and technical specifications. • Act as the primary engineering point of contact for customer technical engagements. • Translate customer system requirements into NAND product specifications, features, and component configurations; lead alignment and specification closure with customers and internal engineering teams to meet performance, reliability, and power objectives. • Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams to address customer technical queries and issues promptly. • Develop clear, accurate, and customer-appropriate technical responses by consolidating and sanitizing information from internal engineering teams. • Review and refine customer-facing technical documents to ensure clarity, consistency, and appropriate messaging. • Support business and account teams in customer meetings, providing engineering expertise and influencing technical tradeoffs and decisions. • Deliver technical training to FAEs, marketing, and other internal teams on NAND technology, product specifications, usage models, application notes, qualification processes, and known issues. REQUIRED: • BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field. • 10+ years of industry experience in NAND flash memory, storage products, or semiconductor technologies. • 5+ years of hands-on experience in NAND flash memory engineering. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex technical issues to resolution. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to balance engineering details, customer sensitivities, and business objectives. • Strong knowledge of NAND flash memory technology, including specifications, features, Toggle mode interface protocols, cell reliability, qualification, and manufacturing processes. • Experience in NAND application engineering or technical program management is a plus • Direct experience supporting OEMs, hyperscalers, or system integrators on NAND adoption, qualification, and productization is preferred. Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership 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. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the " Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal ” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here . Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution. Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@sandisk.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12/15/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline. #LI-CB1 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. • The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future. • You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards. • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan. • Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff Product Development Engineer to lead product development and customer technical engagement for Sandisk’s NAND wafer and component product line.
Serve as the technical lead for NAND wafer and component products, driving product excellence and influencing product roadmaps, features, and technical specifications.
Act as the primary engineering point of contact for customer technical engagements.
Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams to address customer technical queries and issues promptly.
Develop clear, accurate, and customer-appropriate technical responses by consolidating and sanitizing information from internal engineering teams.
Review and refine customer-facing technical documents to ensure clarity, consistency, and appropriate messaging.
Support business and account teams in customer meetings, providing engineering expertise and influencing technical tradeoffs and decisions.
Deliver technical training to FAEs, marketing, and other internal teams on NAND technology, product specifications, usage models, application notes, qualification processes, and known issues.
BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field.
10+ years of industry experience in NAND flash memory, storage products, or semiconductor technologies.
5+ years of hands-on experience in NAND flash memory engineering.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex technical issues to resolution.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to balance engineering details, customer sensitivities, and business objectives.
Strong knowledge of NAND flash memory technology, including specifications, features, Toggle mode interface protocols, cell reliability, qualification, and manufacturing processes.
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Experience in NAND application engineering or technical program management is a plus
Direct experience supporting OEMs, hyperscalers, or system integrators on NAND adoption, qualification, and productization is preferred.

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