Sandisk
Staff Engineer, System Design Engineering
Milpitas, CA, United States · Staff+
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About the role
- With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we're living in and that we have the power to shape.
- Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward.
- These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations.
Responsibilities
- Design & Validate AI Infrastructure for Benchmarks
- Analysis of Benchmarks for End-to-end AI Infrastructure and develop test environment for Benchmark tests
- Define and Perform Benchmark tests for AI workloads on storage systems
- Design Benchmarks for Vector DB & KV cache
- Optimize Data pipelines for Inference and training
- Analyze Benchmark results, document and publish with recommendations
- Research and implement innovative ways to validate PCIe/NVMe SSD debug infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience, or a Master's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with 2+ years of experience.
Skills
- Experience with different Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, VMware).
- Scripting and/or programming languages, such as Shell scripts, Python, C/C++ are required.
- AI Infrastructure & Hardware Awareness - GPU/CPU architecture basics
- Experience in Performance & Benchmarking - profiling tools, system bottlenecks
- Debugging knowledge on performance bottlenecks in AI pipelines
- Experience in deriving data movement costs on Edge platforms
- Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment.
- Our pay transparency policy is available here.
- Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity.
Compensation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations.
- 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.
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