Manager, DRAM Product Planning

Samsung Semiconductor•San Jose, CA

6d•$163,000 - $253,000•Onsite

About The Position

Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a strategic DRAM Product Planning Manager to drive customer adoption and establish Samsung as the lead supplier of DRAM-based memory solutions across multiple applications. The role bridges customers with internal engineering and business teams, managing the lifecycle from initial design-in through qualification and mass production. The position involves technical engagement and engineering collaboration, customer-specific memory optimization, and co-development of product roadmaps and specifications. It also develops value-focused business models and market-specific commercial and supply strategies, while building strategic partnerships and multi-year agreements. As the central program manager, this role coordinates internal Sales, Marketing, R&D, and Quality Assurance stakeholders with customer milestones; manages validation, qualification, and production transitions; and mitigates risks to meet customer timelines. The role is based at Samsung’s San Jose headquarters, with daily onsite presence under its Flexible Work policy and average travel of less than 10% domestically and internationally.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related physical science and 10+ years of industry experience; or a master’s degree and 8+ years; or a PhD and 5+ years.
Strong understanding of DRAM design and architecture, system-level operations including RAS, memory controllers and memory PHY, and product support.
Background in signal integrity/power integrity (SI/PI) and timing measurements.
Familiarity with fab processes, semiconductor manufacturing, and advanced packaging.
Deep understanding of 2.5D/3D integration, including TSV, micro-bumping, and hybrid bonding.
Proven experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Applications, Design, Validation, or Development, leading enablement and debugging.
Flexibility to travel based on project and customer needs.
Inclusive, adaptable, curious, resilient, collaborative, innovative, and creative approach to work.

Nice To Haves

Experience defining architecture and specifications for next-generation custom HBM (HBM4+).
Ability to plan active logic base-dies integrating core IP such as memory controllers, advanced RAS, and processing elements.
Experience collaborating with foundries such as TSMC, Samsung Foundry, or Intel Foundry on advanced nodes, and with design houses for custom silicon development.
Experience defining customized interfaces such as Die-to-Die PHY for bespoke customer architectures, including hyperscaler XPUs and high-end GPUs.
Analytical ability to evaluate system-level PPA (Power-Performance-Area) benefits and optimize customer TCO.

Responsibilities

Lead technical engagements with customer engineering teams to position Samsung DRAM solutions for next-generation platforms.
Facilitate collaborative engineering debugging and troubleshooting during evaluation, qualification, and mass production.
Analyze customer system architectures and propose optimized memory solutions.
Establish and govern co-development frameworks aligning customer hardware roadmaps with Samsung’s memory technology pipeline.
Collaborate with customer architects to define product specifications, interfaces, and feature sets.
Channel customer architectural feedback to internal R&D and product planning teams.
Design business models focused on total cost of ownership reduction and value-added memory features.
Develop commercial and supply strategies tailored to application segments such as Automotive, Server, Mobile, and AI/HPC.
Build strategic alliances and secure multi-year commercial agreements.
Coordinate internal Sales, Marketing, R&D, and Quality Assurance stakeholders with customer milestones.
Manage execution from design-in through validation, qualification, and mass-production transition.
Identify project risks, execute mitigation strategies, and deliver to customer timelines.