Staff Engineer, Product Development Engineering (C, NAND, Microcontroller)

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.

We are recruiting a Product Development Engineer to design and develop a Manufacturing/Reliability/Production Firmware, which will be used to qualify NAND/HBF across memory products (SSD, USB, SD, uSD, HBF)

Responsibilities

Analyzing the requirements from cross functional teams to qualify the NAND for SSD (cSS/eSS), RPG (SD/uSD, USB, Ext SSD) products; Design & Development of Manufacturing/Reliability Firmware for NAND. Enhance the firmware as per the latest controller & NAND Specs. It needs detailed understanding of controller specification, NAND specification & debugging of both HW/FW components.; Qualify the NAND by testing it using Manufacturing/Reliability Firmware; Fix bugs in existing Manufacturing/Reliability FW, Test Programs and Collaborate with cross functional team in debugging issues from production; Should be able to work with geographically distributed teams and ensure on time & quality delivery of committed deliverables; Individual must have the passion to learn new technologies.

Requirements

Excellent in C programming skills, NAND Programming skills, Python skills; Very good knowledge and hands on experience with ARM/ARC/RISC-V microcontroller architecture and Peripherals (like TIMER/SPI/I2C/UART/USB/DMA); Hands on experience in design, development, testing and debugging of embedded systems. Good knowledge on debugging tools like GDB, JTAG etc; Experience with RTOS (ThreadX) is desirable; Good knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets/specification for controller; Good to have knowledge/experience on NAND flash memory (BiCS); Familiar with configuration management tools(SVN, Git, Bitbucket), defect tracking tools(JIRA), and peer review (like code collaborator); Strong analytical and problem solving skills; Good communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills; Experience: 8 to 12 years (B.Tech/M.Tech); Minimum qualification: B.E or B.Tech ( EEE/ Electronics and communication/ CSE)