Intern, SSD System Design Engineer
About The Position
The SSD Architecture Team defines future requirements and use cases for SSDs and analyzes and troubleshoots performance and endurance capabilities of SSDs. Typical activities include designing, programming, debugging, and modifying models of firmware and ASICs to evaluate these changes and assess the performance, power, and endurance of the product. Team strongly encouraged to use AI tools to improve efficiency. The team initiates and analyzes changes to the architecture of the product. Additionally, performance debug tools are created, utilized, and refined to assist a cross-functional team design industry-leading SSD performance and features. Further, customer use cases, workloads, and features are understood and documented to support the development team. Competitor SSDs also analyzed to better understand target performance, features, and use cases. Be part of the team that sets the requirements and architecture of current and future SSDs.
Requirements
- Pursuing a Bachelor's with a projected graduation date in 2027 in Computer science, Computer Engineering or similar.
- Understanding coding in Python, C and other common languages.
- Creative problem solving skills and tradeoff analysis.
Nice To Haves
- Good written and oral presentation skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
- Modeling capability, either time-based or probability based, is a plus.
- Systems understanding and experience a plus
Responsibilities
- designing, programming, debugging, and modifying models of firmware and ASICs to evaluate these changes and assess the performance, power, and endurance of the product.
- initiates and analyzes changes to the architecture of the product.
- performance debug tools are created, utilized, and refined to assist a cross-functional team design industry-leading SSD performance and features.
- customer use cases, workloads, and features are understood and documented to support the development team.
- Competitor SSDs also analyzed to better understand target performance, features, and use cases.
Benefits
- 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
- the Sandisk Savings 401(k) Plan
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Career Level
Intern
