Senior Staff, Product Development Engineering
$159,800 - $271,700 USD yearly
Lead the qualification and mass production ramp of 3D NAND OEM products for data center applications.
Originally posted 2 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role provides technical leadership to execute the ramp and qualification of 3D NAND OEM products targeted for data center applications based on customer requirements. You will serve as an internal business unit-facing technical lead aligning customer specifications with engineering deliverables.
What you'll do
- Lead the product development team on qualifying NAND OEM products targeted for data center applications.
- Drive cross-functional engineering teams to meet specifications, schedules, and project milestones.
- Evaluate technical results, challenge conclusions from internal engineering teams, and prepare technical task outcome reports.
- Create and manage project schedules, engineering activity plans, and cross-functional dependency tracking.
- Resolve memory issues, escalate unresolved problems to the product line core team, and coordinate technical reviews of NAND memory readiness.
- Interface directly with customer and system teams to align on 3D NAND product specifications, development schedules, and roadmaps.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent major with 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
- Expertise in semiconductor technology development, qualification, and ramp into mass production alongside customer interfacing experience.
- Direct working experience in 3D NAND device physics and SSD architecture.
- Knowledge in digital electronics/circuits, DRAM, NAND cell device, and TSV reliability.
- Demonstrated skills in SSD system usage, end-user applications, debugging and troubleshooting, risk and mitigation planning, and hardware/software applications.
Nice to have
- AI/ML usage in semiconductor domain.
- Basic scripting skills (Perl, Python).
- Hands-on lab experience with electronic instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, meters).
Skills: 3D NAND, qualification, mass production, SSD architecture, device physics
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This role has been open 6 days — well below the 65-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
83
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Median days open
65 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$192k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SanDisk | All employers we track in this specialty (83 roles · 10 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 14 | 83 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 46 | 2382 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 6 d | 65 d (−59 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $192k |
Skills observed across this category: 3D NAND, qualification, mass production, SSD architecture, device physics
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 54 open roles · median 83 d
- SanDisk (this employer) · 14 open roles · median 7 d
- KIOXIA America · 4 open roles · median 35 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 3 open roles · median 226 d
- OmniVision · 2 open roles · median 178 d
- Solidigm · 2 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 83 open Product Engineering (Memory Design) roles from 10 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 — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.