Technologist, Product Development Engineering
$159,800 - $271,700 USD yearly
Lead product qualification and characterization for NAND and DRAM memory technologies on Advantest and Teradyne ATE platforms.
Originally posted 1 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Lead the development, characterization, qualification, and production readiness of memory and storage products from early silicon bring-up through high-volume manufacturing. You will serve as a technical authority within Product Development Engineering, driving test methodology, failure analysis, and system-level behavior.
What you'll do
- Lead product development, characterization, and qualification activities for memory and storage technologies from NPI through high-volume production.
- Serve as a technical authority for complex electrical, functional, and system-level issues, leading deep-dive root-cause investigations across silicon, test, firmware, and system domains.
- Architect and optimize test flows, coverage strategies, and screening methodologies using Automated Test Equipment (ATE).
- Drive Design for Test (DFT) methodologies into product design, validation, and manufacturing test flows.
- Develop automation, analysis, and infrastructure tools using Python, C, or C++, and apply AI/ML and statistical techniques to enhance test optimization, anomaly detection, and failure analysis.
- Leverage large-scale test and manufacturing data to identify trends, debug issues, improve yield, and reduce test cost.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience in semiconductor product development, test engineering, reliability engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Deep expertise in NAND, DRAM, or SSD technologies, including device-level behavior, controller interaction, and system-level performance characteristics.
- Proven proficiency with Automated Test Equipment (ATE) platforms such as Advantest or Teradyne.
- Strong programming skills in Python, C, and/or C++, with hands-on experience in automation, test development, and large-scale data analysis.
- Foundational knowledge of AI/ML concepts with practical experience applying machine learning or statistical techniques to test optimization, yield improvement, failure analysis, or manufacturing data analytics.
- Demonstrated experience driving Design for Test (DFT) methodologies into product design, validation, and manufacturing test flows.
Nice to have
- Experience with advanced memory nodes and scaling challenges, including 3D NAND or advanced DRAM generations.
- Strong understanding of high-speed interfaces such as JEDEC, ONFI, or Toggle.
- Exposure to system-level validation, platform bring-up, or end-to-end storage solution integration.
- Experience with yield ramping, manufacturing learning cycles, and test cost optimization in high-volume production environments.
- Familiarity with applying advanced AI/ML techniques (such as anomaly detection, classification, regression, clustering) to large engineering datasets.
- Experience building or deploying data platforms, dashboards, or analytics pipelines for tests, products, or manufacturing ecosystems.
- Knowledge of firmware architecture, system-level design, and error detection, correction, and handling mechanisms (such as ECC, parity, retry flows).
Skills: ATE, NPI, characterization, qualification, NAND, DRAM
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 84-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
85
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Median days open
84 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
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| Metric | SanDisk | All employers we track in this specialty (85 roles · 12 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 85 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 25 | 2302 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 84 d (−84 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: ATE, NPI, characterization, qualification, NAND, DRAM
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 54 open roles · median 86 d
- SanDisk (this employer) · 14 open roles · median 70 d
- KIOXIA America · 4 open roles · median 28 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 3 open roles · median 219 d
- OmniVision · 2 open roles · median 171 d
- Solidigm · 2 open roles · median 8 d
How we counted: 85 open Product Engineering (Memory Design) roles from 12 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 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.