Senior Staff Hardware Engineer
$172,800 - $293,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 12 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
SanDisk is seeking a Senior Staff Hardware Engineer to lead hardware development from architecture through product realization for memory and storage solutions. The role drives PCBA and high-speed hardware design across silicon, package, board, and system integration.
What you'll do
- Lead hardware development from architecture and requirements through design, integration, qualification, and production release.
- Direct the architecture and development of high-speed PCBAs, covering electrical architecture, power delivery, SI/PI, schematics, and layout implementation.
- Lead the implementation of high-speed interfaces including PCIe, UCIe, and DDR, and support UCIe interoperability, characterization, and debug.
- Define board-level power architecture and drive signal integrity, power integrity, clocking, reset architecture, and power sequencing.
- Oversee hardware bring-up, validation, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional issue resolution across ASIC, firmware, package, and validation teams.
- Lead the development of engineering test vehicles, adapters, and characterization platforms.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of hardware development experience leading hardware products from concept through production.
- Demonstrated expertise in high-speed digital design, PCB architecture, and design review.
- Deep technical experience in signal integrity, power integrity, power architecture, and power delivery.
- Hands-on background in system bring-up, debug, hardware integration, root-cause analysis, validation, and qualification.
- Experience working across ASIC, firmware, package, validation, and manufacturing organizations.
Nice to have
- Experience with advanced packaging technologies, chiplet-based systems, and heterogeneous integration.
- Experience with UCIe, PCIe, or other die-to-die and high-speed interconnect technologies, including UCIe interoperability, validation, characterization, and debug.
- Experience working with customers, suppliers, OSATs, and manufacturing partners.
- Experience with data center, AI/accelerator, memory, or high-performance compute architectures and ecosystems.
- Familiarity with evolving memory architectures, system interfaces, and industry standards.
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 44-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
1157
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Median days since first seen
44 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$148k
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| Metric | SanDisk | All employers we track in this specialty (1157 roles · 108 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 1157 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 67 | 6642 · 159 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 13 d | 44 d (+31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $148k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 93 open roles · median 34 d
- KLA Corporation · 66 open roles · median 62 d
- Applied Materials · 65 open roles · median 36 d
- NVIDIA · 62 open roles · median 75 d
- ASML · 58 open roles · median 21 d
- Teradyne · 58 open roles · median 53 d
How we counted: 1157 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 108 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 12 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, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.