Total 28 job vacancies by Sandisk

We're looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead our Memory Reliability & Qualification engineering organization in Bengaluru, India. In this strategic leadership role, you will oversee the complete NAND Flash memory qualification lifecycle, drive innovation, and build a high-performing engineering team. You will be responsible for translating business objectives into technical strategies while maintaining operational excellence and delivering world-class solutions.

• Lead and mentor a team of NAND Technology Reliability engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• The candidate should have a vast experience in semiconductor industry along with strong skills in Failure Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Device Physics and programming
• Develop and execute memory qualification strategies aligned with organizational goals and business demands
• Oversee the complete qualification lifecycle, from requirements gathering through successful memory qualification, ensuring timely delivery and attention to details
• Manage engineering budgets, resource allocation, and project timelines to optimize operational efficiency
• Make critical technical decisions based on the performance and reliability checkpoint data to judge the memory technology
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product engineering, test engineering and product management to ensure seamless delivery
• Develop and implement performance metrics to track engineering team productivity and deliverables quality
• Represent the team in executive meetings and strategic planning sessions

• Providing technical leadership and expertise to define requirements for framework through programming/scripting of verification and emulation flows.
• Partnering with ASIC engineers to deploy and support framework for technologies like advanced verification environment configuration and management.
• Collaborating cross-functionally to optimize verification and emulation workflows and standardize methodologies.

• Need to work in collaboration with global analog teams across sites.
• Will be responsible for driving innovation in Analog IP designs.
• Responsible for design of IPs like Voltage regulators, LDO, Current and Voltage reference, High Voltage charge pumps, temperature sensors, oscillators etc using industry standard EDA tools.
• Should provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.
• Responsible for developing processes and robust design methodology.
• Help build overall competency in Analog domain.

Key Responsibilities – Mask Design Technologist

• Layout Design & Optimization: Develop and optimize peripheral and core circuit layouts for Analog, Digital, and Mixed-signal domains, ensuring adherence to design specifications, performance requirements, and foundry rules.

• Design Verification: Perform DRC (Design Rule Check) and LVS (Layout Versus Schematic) verification, parasitic extraction, and sign-off methodologies to guarantee design integrity and first-pass success.

• Power Distribution & Floorplanning: Analyze and implement full-chip power distribution strategies and floorplanning optimization to ensure efficient electrical performance, minimize parasitics, and reduce die size.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with design and process engineering teams across multiple sites to resolve issues, align methodologies, and drive project success while maintaining high standards of accuracy and consistency.

In this senior leadership role, you will lead the development of advanced mask layouts for next-generation memory technologies, strengthening our company’s position as a leader in the semiconductor industry.

In this position, the individual will be responsible for design & development of device FW for next-generation PCIe / NVMe SSD products.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, debug firmware for the next generation of SSDs
• HW Interface drivers, algorithm design and implementation
• Contribute to the SSD firmware and play a significant role in delivering next generation SSDs to market
• Design and implement firmware algorithms needed to achieve best in class performance goals
• Support failure analysis on test systems
• Active participation in technical design, implementation reviews across teams and functions

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Represents Package Engineering in cross-functional teams and ensures that packages are characterized, qualified, and introduced into production in a timely manner while meeting all mechanical, electrical, performance, reliability, and quality requirements.        
• Lead cross-functional teams, factories, and other engineers while managing the entire package life cycle process.          
• Works with the Packaging R&D teams worldwide to develop and qualify new and emerging packaging technology required to support business needs
• Support assembly yield improvement and package cost reduction programs.  
• Lead new product from low volume to high volume production transition with yield and quality meeting goals. Ensure FMEA, SOD, Control Plan, recipe guideline, SPC and other assembly controls are ready prior to high volume production.
• Work on innovative ideas for best-in-class package design.

• Development of C++/SystemC models for complex ASIC IPs, SOCs and Flash Memories.
• Create System Level Tests and/or Standalone Unit Tests and verify the models.
• Lead and Guide team in the project activities.
• Keen on schedule and quality of the deliverables.
• Timely support to the stakeholders enabling software bring-up.

As a Pricipal Emulation Engineer in the ASIC Emulation team, you will be responsible for Emulation builds, sanity test suite & methodology. 

• Providing technical leadership and expertise to define requirements for Emulation and Emulation IP development.
• Create emulation models from RTL / Netlist. Develop hardware collateral to be integrated with the Palladium / FPGA emulation mode.
• Experience in Palladium or Zebu Platforms Automation and increase process efficiencies.
• Collaborating cross-functionally to optimize emulation workflows and standardize methodologies.
• Work with extended teams to debug environment and drive cross-functional testing (Firmware, Software, Verification and Design)
• Triage failures with design, verification, firmware, software teams.
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.

Skills Required:

• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environment and shell scripting
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills with simulation and emulation environments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to work closely with design, validation, firmware, and physical design teams to resolve system-level issues.
• Strong team player, able to collaborate effectively across architecture, design, and validation teams.

We are looking for a Front‑End PCIe Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the device‑side PCIe Front‑End firmware stack for next‑generation high‑performance storage controllers. In this role, you will own key layers of the PCIe firmware responsible for link bring‑up, configuration space management, MMIO, interrupts, DMA, and command/queue handling, working closely with hardware, validation, and host‑software teams.

Key Responsibilities

• PCIe Front‑End Firmware Development

  • Design and implement firmware for PCIe initialization, link bring‑up, and configuration space programming (BARs, capabilities, MSI/MSI‑X).
  • Develop MMIO‑based control and status interfaces used by host software.
  • Work closely with DMA engines to enable high‑bandwidth, low‑latency host‑to‑device and device‑to‑host data transfers. 

• Architecture & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

  • Collaborate with hardware design teams on PCIe IP integration and bring‑up.
  • Partner with validation teams on FPGA, emulation, and ASIC debug.
  • Work with host‑side driver and system software teams to define clean, scalable interfaces. 

• Debugging & Performance Optimization

  • Debug complex system‑level issues spanning firmware, hardware, and host.
  • Profile and optimize PCIe throughput, latency, and interrupt efficiency.
  • Support bring‑up on pre‑silicon and post‑silicon platforms.

• We are seeking a Staff Engineer, who understand embedded NAND system design and firmware algorithms in order to create a test validation plans and implement them in modern object oriented languages.
• Work closely with the system architects and the firmware team to develop Validation plans, test bench and test cases
• Develop an overall validation strategy including defining validation infrastructure and validation methodology
• Debug the firmware and expose design issues
• Define and design functional tests required to meet customer needs
• Review SanDisk UFS/eMMC embedded NAND validation requirements and influence future SanDisk product design for debug and test
• Work with customers to understand field bugs and to enhance the validation coverage
• Interface with all key stakeholders to ensure product validation meets customer expectations and needs

We are seeking an experienced Firmware Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to drive execution excellence across complex firmware development programs. This role partners closely with Firmware Engineering, Validation, Architecture, and Cross‑Functional stakeholders to ensure predictable delivery, risk management, and transparent execution across multiple concurrent firmware projects.

The ideal candidate brings strong program management fundamentals combined with working knowledge of firmware / embedded systems, enabling effective engagement with engineering teams and leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Delivery Management

• Own end‑to‑end project execution for one or more firmware programs, from planning through release.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans covering firmware development, validation, integration, and release milestones.
• Drive milestone tracking, dependency management, and timely escalation of risks and issues.
• Ensure delivery commitments are met in terms of schedule, scope, and quality.

Execution Tracking & Reporting

• Establish and maintain execution dashboards using JIRA, dashboards, EasyBI, SmartSheets, or similar tools.
• Track sprint execution, feature progress, defect trends, validation readiness, and release health.
• Prepare clear, concise management summaries for senior leadership reviews.
• Ensure action items from reviews and interlocks are tracked to closure.

Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Coordination

• Act as the primary execution interface between Firmware Engineering, Validation, Hardware, System, Product, and Operations teams.
• Drive regular interlocks, syncs, and reviews to align on priorities, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Facilitate effective communication across geographically distributed teams.

Process & Operational Excellence

• Support adoption of Agile / Scrum like execution models within firmware teams.
• Help standardize execution practices, reporting formats, and release readiness criteria.
• Identify execution gaps and continuously improve planning, tracking, and reporting mechanisms.

Budget & Resource Tracking

• Support budget consolidation, spend tracking, and forecasting for firmware programs.
• Track contractor/vendor engagement, PO execution, and alignment with financial plans.
• Ensure timely execution of staffing and resource requests 

We are looking for an Embedded Storage Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain firmware for high performance storage devices and controllers. In this role, you will work close to the hardware, building reliable, high‑performance firmware that manages data movement, flash media, and device behavior under real‑world workloads.

You will contribute across the storage firmware stack, including boot, device initialization, data path, error handling, diagnostics, performance optimization, and reliability features, working closely with hardware, validation, and system teams.

Key Responsibilities

Storage Firmware Development

• Design and implement embedded firmware for storage devices such as SSDs or storage controllers.
• Develop firmware modules for device initialization, command processing, and data movement.
• Implement and maintain state machines and control logic for reliable storage operation.
• Implement recovery mechanisms to ensure data integrity and device reliability.
• Optimize firmware for throughput, latency, and power efficiency.
• Analyze and improve performance under various workloads.
• Add robust error detection, logging, and recovery mechanisms.
• Develop low‑level drivers and hardware interfaces as required.
• Support firmware integration with host software and system drivers.
• Debug complex firmware and hardware interaction issues using JTAG, logs, traces, and emulation/simulation tools.
• Collaborate with validation teams to reproduce, analyze, and fix issues.
• Support bring‑up and stabilization on new platforms and silicon revisions.

We are looking for an Embedded Storage Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain firmware for high performance storage devices and controllers. In this role, you will work close to the hardware, building reliable, high‑performance firmware that manages data movement and device behavior under real‑world workloads.

You will contribute across the storage firmware stack, including boot, device initialization, data path, error handling, diagnostics, performance optimization, and reliability features, working closely with hardware, validation, and system teams.

Key Responsibilities

Storage Firmware Development

• Design and implement embedded firmware for storage devices such as SSDs or storage controllers.
• Develop firmware modules for device initialization, command processing, and data movement.
• Implement and maintain state machines and control logic for reliable storage operation.
• Implement recovery mechanisms to ensure data integrity and device reliability.
• Optimize firmware for throughput, latency, and power efficiency.
• Analyze and improve performance under various workloads.
• Add robust error detection, logging, and recovery mechanisms.
• Develop low‑level drivers and hardware interfaces as required.
• Support firmware integration with host software and system drivers.
• Debug complex firmware and hardware interaction issues using JTAG, logs, traces, and emulation/simulation tools.
• Collaborate with validation teams to reproduce, analyze, and fix issues.
• Support bring‑up and stabilization on new platforms and silicon revisions.

We are seeking a Security Firmware Engineer to design, implement, and maintain security‑critical components in embedded firmware for next‑generation storage and controller products. This role focuses on device‑level security, including secure firmware update, lifecycle management, debug port control, Root of Trust (RoT) interactions, and protection of critical assets such as keys, OTP, and credentials.

The ideal candidate has strong low‑level firmware expertise combined with hands‑on experience in embedded security architectures and secure system design.

Key Responsibilities

Security Firmware Architecture & Development

• Design and implement security layers within device firmware, aligned with product security requirements and ASIC security IP capabilities
• Integrate firmware with Root of Trust (RoT) subsystems, including support for both hardware‑based and firmware‑based RoT models where applicable. 
• Ensure secure handling of cryptographic material and prevention of unauthorized access.
• Implement and integrate cryptographic primitives and related authentication and encryption flows used in firmware
• Work closely with hardware teams to leverage ASIC security IPs, HSMs, and secure key storage.
• Support security testing, threat analysis, and vulnerability mitigation during development and validation cycles.
• Participate in design reviews, security assessments, and risk evaluations.

We are seeking a deep technical Technologist to join our Firmware Engineering team, focusing on the core, low-level firmware for our next-generation flash project. You will be a key player in implementing the firmware that directly interacts with the NAND memory, manages system power and thermals. This is a hands-on role for a problem-solver who can ensure the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our flash storage solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• NAND Flash Firmware: Design and implement the firmware that directly controls and accesses the flash memory. This includes developing drivers for high-speed flash interfaces and designing algorithms for raw data access, error correction, and wear leveling at the physical layer.
• Power & Thermal Management: Lead the design and implementation of intelligent firmware for low-power states, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), and thermal throttling. You will be responsible for optimizing power consumption and managing the thermal profile of the controller under various workload conditions.
• Debug & Optimization: Utilize your expertise to debug complex, system-level issues related to NAND access, power, thermal, and memory subsystems. You'll profile and optimize the firmware to squeeze out every bit of performance and efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with the hardware, ASIC, and verification teams to define requirements and debug issues, ensuring a cohesive and high-performing system.