Staff Engineer, Reliability Infrastructure Engineer

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.

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