Senior Staff Product Development Engineer at Sandisk in Milpitas, CA

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 Il