Principal, System Product Engineer

Sandisk • Milpitas, CA

3d

About The Position

Focus: AI workload-driven product development, test strategy, and production readiness. Why This Role: Full system-stack ownership, direct executive visibility, and the opportunity to define — not just follow — product development strategy. Lead system-level product development for AI infrastructure platforms, using workload-driven and data-informed validation to ensure product quality, yield, and readiness from definition through ramp. You will operate across compute, memory, storage, and connectivity subsystems — driving system-level integration and early bring up before full platform maturity.

Requirements

• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 6–12+ years in system product engineering, validation, or test development
• Strong understanding of system architecture across compute, memory, storage, and interconnects
• Proficiency in Python and C/C++
• Experience with data analysis, failure analysis and yield optimization
• Strong product ownership and system thinking across multiple domains
• Data-driven decision maker
• Hands-on coder or effective AI workflow orchestrator — non-negotiable
• Ability to define methodology, not just follow existing playbooks

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end system product development across product development stacks for AI infra products.
• Drive early system learning through simulation-based validation before hardware, firmware, and silicon maturity.
• Translate product requirements into workload-driven validation strategies, linking real workload behavior to system-level coverage and product quality.
• Define test strategies using workload-informed coverage and data-driven screening.
• Use AI-assisted analysis to identify coverage gaps and optimize test efficiency.
• Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate test code development, including spec-to-code generation and automated validation.
• Partner with Test Engineering to deliver scalable and robust production test solutions.
• Lead system-level failure analysis across NPI and qualification phases.
• Debug issues across hardware, firmware, and system interactions.
• Correlate system-level workload behavior to component-level stress and failure mechanisms to improve coverage and yield.
• Analyze large-scale test data to identify yield limiters and detect anomalies.
• Drive data-informed decisions, including practical use of ML-based classification where appropriate.
• Contribute to and own test firmware development aligned with system-level test and product requirements.
• Act as product development lead working with Design, System, FW, TE, HW, SW, Quality, and Operations teams.
• Deliver clear executive-level updates grounded in data and system insights.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, debug, and test development workflows.
• Promote best practices in AI-assisted engineering across the team.

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
• annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree