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Company Description
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 we're living in and that we have the power to shape.
Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.
Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.
Job Description
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Engineer to lead strategy, planning, build and maintenance of SSD environmental test chambers supporting our Enterprise Product Quality organization. This role is responsible for test chamber capacity planning, capital purchases, maintenance strategy, utilization optimization, and deep technical engagement on test chamber failure analysis.
The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with environmental chambers, strong ability to coordinate with global team across multiple time zones including India, Israel & Malaysia and the ability to work effectively with external vendors to resolve complex reliability and infrastructure issues impacting product quality and test throughput.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBER OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE

• Define and drive maintenance strategies (preventive, corrective, lifecycle management) for environmental chambers and associated test infrastructure.
• Establish standard operating procedures, health metrics, and readiness criteria for chambers used in SSD qualification and reliability testing.
• Build continuous improvement strategies based on lessons learned.

FAILURE ANALYSIS & DEBUG

• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for chamber-related downtime or performance issues.
• Diagnose issues spanning thermal, power, mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
• Work with external vendors and internal teams to implement corrective actions to drive cross-functional debug efforts to identify root causes and implement robust fixes.

VENDOR & EXTERNAL PARTNER MANAGEMENT

• Serve as the primary technical interface with environmental chamber vendors and test equipment suppliers.
• Lead vendor technical reviews, failure escalations, and corrective action plans.
• Evaluate vendor solutions, technologies, and roadmaps to influence future purchases and capabilities.

TEST INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY & PLANNING

• Own end-to-end planning for SSD environmental test chambers including capital planning and justification for new chamber purchases, capacity and utilization planning aligned with product roadmaps, long term infrastructure and scaling strategy.
• Partner with Product Quality, Reliability, Validation, and Operations teams to forecast test demand and align infrastructure investments.

GLOBAL LAB ALIGNMENT

• Work closely with global teams to ensure labs and equipment are aligned to product plans, update schedules, and best practices.
• Act as the main point of contact for making sure labs and equipment are staying aligned to company policies and procedures.
• Identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement and automation.

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 6+ years of engineering experience, with significant focus on test infrastructure, environmental testing, Reliability, or validation environments.
• Hands-on experience working with environmental test chambers (thermal, humidity, stress testing, etc.).
• Strong understanding of chamber maintenance, calibration, failure modes, and operational best practices.
• Proven experience analyzing and troubleshooting tester or infrastructure failures in a lab or production-like environment.
• Experience working directly with external vendors to resolve technical issues and drive improvements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple teams and influence technical decisions, test infrastructure demand planning .

Preferred:

• Experience supporting SSD or storage product qualification, validation, or reliability testing.
• Familiarity with enterprise-class reliability methodologies (HTOL, temperature cycling, burn-in, stress testing, Reliability Demonstration Testing).
• Background in scaling test infrastructure for high-volume or multiproduct environments.

Additional Information
Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.
Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.
Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@sandisk.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 06/09/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.
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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.