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SanDisk

Circuit Design Engineer - PhD Intern

SanDisk Folsom, United States Full-time 28 days ago
Digital Design & SoC Architecture Memory & Storage Technologies

Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role is for a Circuit Design Engineer intern joining the Advanced Memory Development team. The position focuses on circuit designs from architecture and validation through parasitic modeling and layout supervision.

What you'll do

  • Develop circuit designs from architecture through circuit development and validation.
  • Develop models including parasitic and load.
  • Supervise layout development with layout designers.

What you'll need

  • Pursuing a graduate degree in the field of Electrical Engineering with a focus in VLSI Circuit design.
  • Experience with Cadence Virtuoso or similar design suite tools for daily schematic work.
  • Experience with custom circuit design simulation and waveform tools such as HSPICE, SPECTRE, FINESIM, or EZWAVE.
  • Experience in CMOS Digital Logic design using custom circuit design.
  • Deep knowledge of CMOS device physics.
  • In-depth knowledge of at least one analog building block such as regulators, bandgap, current mirrors, level shifters, buffering circuits, DAC, ADC, temperature sensors (PTAT), or high speed CMOS circuits.
  • In-depth knowledge of analog and mixed signal circuits and concepts including mismatch, linearity, and low power CMOS design.

Skills: Cadence Virtuoso, HSPICE, custom circuit design, CMOS, Advanced Memory Development

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Market context

This role has been open 6 days — well below the 72-day median for Memory Design roles.

Memory Design · Memory Design

Open roles in category
302
Median days open
72 d
Category median salary (all employers)
$205k
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How SanDisk compares in Memory Design hiring
Metric SanDisk All employers we track in this specialty (302 roles · 29 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 15 302
Median days open 6 d 72 d (−66 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $205k

Skills observed across this category: Cadence Virtuoso, HSPICE, custom circuit design, CMOS, Advanced Memory Development

Who's hiring in this category

  • Micron Technology · 154 open roles · median 82 d
  • Synopsys · 30 open roles · median 77 d
  • Qualcomm · 18 open roles · median 106 d
  • Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 78 d
  • SanDisk (this employer) · 15 open roles · median 7 d
  • NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 59 d

How we counted: 302 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.

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Folsom, United States
On-site
Full-time
28 days ago

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