Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering
Sandisk•Milpitas, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Join a team building next-generation flash memory platforms for AI inference, where performance, efficiency, and scalability are being redefined from the ground up. As part of the Emerging Technology Solutions group, we are pioneering new approaches using advanced flash technologies to unlock the next wave of AI performance. This is not an incremental product—it’s an opportunity to work on cutting-edge system architecture, solve first-of-its-kind engineering problems, and directly influence how AI systems are built in the years ahead.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 5–10+ years of experience in high-performance hardware design (SSD or related systems)
- Strong background in high-speed digital design (PCIe Gen5/Gen6, DDR5, or similar)
- Experience with schematic and PCB design (Cadence Allegro/OrCAD or equivalent)
- Experience with system bring-up, validation, and debug
- Experience with power delivery and signal integrity considerations
- Proven ability to debug complex system-level issues and drive them to resolution
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across cross-functional teams
Nice To Haves
- Experience with next-generation interconnects (PCIe, CXL, switching architectures)
- Exposure to AI, data center, or high-performance compute platforms
- Familiarity with firmware/hardware interaction and system-level optimization
- Background in productization, manufacturing, or OEM enablement
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end hardware development of advanced storage platforms designed for AI infrastructure
- Own full-cycle hardware design from architecture through schematic, layout, bring-up, validation, and qualification
- Drive form factor and PCB design for high-performance systems, including high-speed interfaces, power delivery and integrity, and thermal and mechanical integration
- Work cross-functionally with ASIC, firmware, system architecture, and platform teams to optimize real-world AI workloads
- Develop and execute bring-up, validation, and debug strategies using advanced lab instrumentation
- Solve complex system challenges in signal and power integrity, performance tuning under real workloads, and reliability and manufacturability
- Lead debug, DOE, and root-cause analysis to push system performance and yield beyond conventional limits
- Partner with manufacturing and supply chain to transition cutting-edge designs into scalable products
- Mentor engineers and help define best practices for next-generation high-speed system design
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
- 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
- Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
- Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
- Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
