Senior Staff, Product Development Engineering - Milpitas, United States
Originally posted 2 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for providing leadership to execute the successful ramp of 3D NAND OEM products based on customer requirements. The individual will resolve memory issues and escalate unresolved issues to the product line core team.
What you'll do
- Lead the product development team on qualifying NAND OEM products targeted for data center applications.
- Host regular meetings and drive cross-functional teams to meet specifications and schedules.
- Evaluate technical results and challenge conclusions from various internal engineering teams.
- Prepare and present reports outlining the outcome of technical tasks and make recommendations for actions.
- Prepare and manage assigned sections of project schedule and create the overall plan for engineering activities.
- Interface with the customer/system to align on 3D NAND product specs, product development schedule and roadmaps.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent and 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
- Expertise in semiconductor technology development, qualification, and ramp into mass production along with customer interfacing experience.
- Prior working experience in 3D NAND device physics and SSD architecture.
- Knowledge in (logic, systems), digital electronics/circuits, DRAM, NAND cell device, TSV reliability.
- Demonstrated skills in SSD system usage and end user applications backgrounds, debugging and trouble shooting, risk and mitigation planning, and working with hardware and software applications.
Nice to have
- AL/ML usage in semiconductor domain
- Basic Scripting Skills (Perl, Python)
- Hands-on lab experience with electronic instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, meters)
Skills: 3D NAND OEM products, customer requirements, product development team, qualifying NAND OEM products, NAND memory readiness, SSD architecture
This role has been open 44 days — below the 50-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
97
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$149k
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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 (97 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 14 | 97 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 36 | 2218 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 57 d | 50 d (+7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $149k |
Skills observed across this category: 3D NAND OEM products, customer requirements, product development team, qualifying NAND OEM products, NAND memory readiness, SSD architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 59 open roles · median 73 d
- SanDisk (this employer) · 14 open roles · median 57 d
- KIOXIA America · 8 open roles · median 18 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 3 open roles · median 206 d
- OmniVision · 2 open roles · median 158 d
- Solidigm · 2 open roles · median 110 d
How we counted: 97 open Product Engineering (Memory Design) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 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.