Staff Engineer, System Design Verification

Responsibilities

• Own system-level validation strategy for SSD platforms across FVT/DVT/SVT and customer qualification phases
• Define and drive end-to-end test plans covering performance, reliability, corner cases, stress, and long-duration workloads
• Lead system bring-up, platform configuration, and debug across OEM and hyperscaler environments
• Perform deep-dive failure triage and root-cause analysis spanning firmware, hardware, drivers, OS, and test infrastructure
• Drive issue resolution through data-backed analysis and cross-team collaboration
• Act as technical authority for system verification sign-off readiness and risk assessment
• Mentor and technically guide senior/lead engineers
• Partner with customer engineering teams to support customer-specific validation and escalations
• Contribute to test methodology improvements, automation strategy, and lab efficiency
• Influence architecture and design decisions by providing early validation feedback

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in SoC or IP verification
• Strong experience in system validation or design verification for storage or complex compute platforms
• Deep understanding of PCIe, NVMe, and SSD architectures
• Knowledge of host-device interactions across Linux, Windows, and VMware
• Experience with performance, latency, endurance, and stress characterization
• Hands-on debug using logs, traces, protocol analyzers, and system instrumentation
• Experience with qualification environments such as OEM, hyperscaler, or enterprise
• Solid scripting or automation exposure in Python or Bash
• Strong understanding of validation workflows, coverage tracking, and release readiness

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience validating enterprise or data-center SSDs
• Exposure to hyperscaler workloads, AI/ML, or storage at scale
• Experience owning end-to-end validation for multiple programs in parallel
• Prior involvement in customer escalations and field issue debug
• Ability to influence without authority and drive technical consensus

About the Company

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world.