System Product Engineer (New or Recent Graduate)

Sandisk • Milpitas, CA

3d

About The Position

This role focuses on AI workload modeling, simulation-first validation, and scalable test infrastructure. The position offers the opportunity to build foundational infrastructure, including simulation, automation, and AI-assisted workflows, within a small, high-impact team. The goal is to shape how system test development is done by building AI-native validation and test infrastructure that enables early system learning and workload-driven validation across the product lifecycle, reducing dependency on late-stage integration environments. The engineer will operate across compute, memory, and storage subsystems, enabling correlation between real workloads and system behavior.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
• 0–5+ years in validation, modeling, infrastructure development, or related fields
• Fresh PhD graduates with relevant research experience are encouraged to apply
• Strong Python skills
• C/C++ a plus
• Experience or research background in system modeling, simulation, or workload analysis
• Understanding of data movement and performance behavior across system components
• Ability to rapidly absorb complex system architecture and translate understanding into engineering artifacts
• Builder mindset — tools, frameworks, infrastructure
• Strong system and data intuition
• Hands-on coder or effective AI workflow orchestrator — non-negotiable
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, early-stage environments

Responsibilities

• Develop and analyze AI workloads, focusing on memory access characterization, and data movement behavior.
• Generate trace-based and synthetic stress patterns for system-level validation.
• Build lightweight simulation and emulation environments (e.g., QEMU-based system models and customized modeling) for early validation and scalable development environment.
• Map workload to test prior to hardware availability.
• Reduce dependency on full-system emulation/real hardware through independent, scalable frameworks.
• Build C/C++/Python-based automation frameworks with parallel execution, structured logging, and scalable data pipelines.
• Build and maintain spec-to-code pipelines: convert product specifications into structured formats for AI-assisted code generation and automated validation.
• Integrate AI tools for test content generation, debug acceleration, and log analysis.
• Develop workload-aware test firmware aligned with system-level use cases.
• Enable functional coverage based on real workloads, not synthetic-only scenarios.
• Build pipelines for data collection, failure classification, and pattern detection.
• Apply ML techniques where appropriate for anomaly detection and failure clustering.
• Map workload behavior to system stress and device-level impact, enabling translation between real workloads and production test coverage.
• Correlate across compute, memory, and storage subsystems.

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, for eligible roles)
• RSU awards for eligible new hires

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level