Senior Staff, System Product Engineering - Milpitas, United States
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role will lead system-level test solution development and product qualification for advanced NAND technologies.
What you'll do
- Define and own test strategy, flow design, test platform bringup (ATE), and qualification.
- Understand product and marketing requirements for production test design.
- Coordinate test coverage to meet products’ target DPPM through all phases of product development.
- Lead data analysis, iterative test flow, production process enhancements, and debug activities for yield improvement.
- Lead RMA Failure Analysis activities, drive root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Develop methodologies to deliver ATE test programs, validation, and debug activities.
- Develop DFT techniques and test diagnostics to enable enhanced test coverage at system level through FW.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of experience in memory, system-level product, or test engineering.
- Experience applying knowledge of Product Engineering, Product Development, trim development, and NAND performance/reliability optimization.
- Strong understanding of PCIe, System Architecture, ASIC, and clear fundamentals of NAND flash operation at device level.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, product lifecycle, and qualification processes for semiconductors.
- Experience with DFT techniques, Data Analysis tools, and scripting languages suching as Python, C, C++.
- Hands-on experience in system and memory testing, including failure analysis using tools such as oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers.
Nice to have
- Experience with developing or debugging DRAM, PCIe, HBM devices.
- Experience with generative and agentic AI tools.
Skills: test strategy, ATE, qualification, yield improvement, RMA failure analysis, DFT techniques
This role has been open 50 days — below the 51-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
51 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 | 2219 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 58 d | 51 d (+7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $149k |
Skills observed across this category: test strategy, ATE, qualification, yield improvement, RMA failure analysis, DFT techniques
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 59 open roles · median 74 d
- SanDisk (this employer) · 14 open roles · median 58 d
- KIOXIA America · 8 open roles · median 19 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 3 open roles · median 207 d
- OmniVision · 2 open roles · median 159 d
- Solidigm · 2 open roles · median 111 d
How we counted: 97 open Product Engineering (Memory Design) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.