Staff Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Apps)

Sandisk•Milpitas, CA

22h•$116,743 - $193,338•Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a Staff Engineer to join our AI Platform team building and operating our enterprise AI platform for engineering workflows. This role is focused on the foundational platform layer — Agentic systems, MCP ecosystem, LLM gateway, memory and knowledge infrastructure, and platform observability — that powers AI applications across Flash Product's Group.

Requirements

Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
Approximately 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact building production AI/ML systems or developer platforms.
Strong proficiency in Python; working knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript and React.
Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and the Hugging Face ecosystem.
Practical understanding of LLMs, transformers, embeddings, RAG architectures, and agentic design patterns.
Experience integrating with LLM providers and gateways (Anthropic, OpenAI, Portkey, or equivalent), and familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures.
Experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes with Docker, including hybrid on-prem / cloud topologies.
Comfort with relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), in-memory (Redis / Valkey), and vector databases.
Familiarity with OAuth / OIDC, SSO, and enterprise security and compliance practices.

Nice To Haves

Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineering and leadership audiences.
Proven ability to lead initiatives end-to-end, work independently, and collaborate effectively across teams.
Bias for action, ownership mindset, and a track record of shipping in fast-moving environments.
Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous problems, design pragmatic solutions, and debug complex issues across the AI/ML and infrastructure stack.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain core components of the Nexus platform, including agentic orchestration (LangGraph / Deep Agents), MCP servers and gateway integrations, memory and knowledge systems, and the LLM gateway layer.
Develop and extend multi-agent workflows, tool-calling pipelines, and conversational AI experiences across Nexus Builder, Nexus Chat, and purpose-built applications.
Build OIDC-compliant MCP servers that expose enterprise data and tools (Jira, test management, internal systems) to agents in a secure, governed way.
Drive platform stability through environment separation, monitoring, tracing, evaluation pipelines, and incident response practices.
Own technical decisions within assigned workstreams, conduct design reviews, and mentor engineers on agentic patterns, LLM application design, and production AI best practices.
Partner with InfoSec, Cloud Infrastructure, IAM, and product engineering teams to ship platform capabilities that meet enterprise requirements.
Stay current with advances in LLMs, agentic frameworks, and AI infrastructure; evaluate and integrate new technologies into the Nexus roadmap.

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
Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)