Sandisk

Senior Staff Field Application Engineer

Austin, TX, 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.

Lead product architecture reviews (Concept & Design), Quarterly Technical Reviews (QTRs), and future technology roadmap alignments with key enterprise and AI infrastructure architects.
Manage the technical milestones of the Joint Development Management (JDM) lifecycle across initial Design-In, rigorous Qualification, and sustaining engineering phases.
Establish and maintain technical risk registries for new platform qualifications, ensuring clear visibility into program status, gating metrics, and mitigation paths.
Drive critical technical alignment syncs between customer architecture teams and internal Firmware, ASIC, and Quality groups to ensure seamless platform integration.
Qualification Execution, Engineering Support & Sustaining Activities
Manage end-to-end qualification milestones, executing deep-dives across Program Concept Reviews, Design Reviews, and early evaluation risk assessments.
Collaborate deeply with internal engineering and customer teams to review all hardware, firmware, security, and mechanical interfaces, managing ongoing waiver tracking and feature alignments.
Perform hands-on failure analysis (FA) within local customer environments and labs using high-speed protocol analyzers to isolate and resolve complex Firmware bugs, PCIe/NVMe protocol issues, and data integrity anomalies.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
Strong understanding in 3D NAND (TLC/QLC) technology mechanics, including Flash Translation Layer (FTL), Wear Leveling, and Garbage Collection algorithms.
Strong proficiency in high-performance Server and Storage portfolios, target enterprise/AI use-cases, hardware RAID controller interactions, and advanced system telemetry mechanisms.

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.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.

Solid track record of leading a customer through a structured joint qualification lifecycle (such as JDM frameworks) from initial design-win to sustaining fleet health management.
Practical understanding of hardware reliability indicators, including Annualized Failure Rate (AFR), Defective Parts Per Million (DPPM), and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) to properly evaluate fleet health.

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