Lead Staff Engineer, NVMe & System Interop

Sandisk; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to lead cross‑platform system validation and interoperability for next‑generation NVMe SSD products. You will architect scalable validation strategies, drive engineering excellence, and mentor teams across firmware, hardware, QA, and tools/automation to deliver customer‑grade quality at scale.

You will collaborate with FW, HW, and architecture to influence design and release decisions, reduce cycle times, and elevate test coverage while guiding

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SSD validation, platform integration, or storage system engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead system integration strategy for functional, stress, and interoperability validation across diverse platforms and operating systems.
• Develop scalable automation for system-level workflows, including NVMe functional tests, reset/boot flows, PCIe behaviors, and telemetry/FTDC collection.
• Drive system-level triage by identifying failure domains, improving debug repeatability, and accelerating root-cause isolation.
• Collaborate across FW, HW, Validation, Tools, and Architecture to ensure system behaviors and issues inform design and release decisions.
• Enhance productivity by improving test coverage efficiency, reducing execution cycle time, and optimizing platform readiness.
• Introduce new methodologies for system interop, workload generation, stress scenarios, and validation quality gating.
• Mentor engineers, uplift technical practices, and strengthen system-level engineering rigor.

Skills

NVMe

PCIe

Linux

Automation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Troubleshooting

Test Automation

Education

BS/MS in EE/CE/CS

Tools

fio

PowerShell

Job description

Sandisk is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to lead cross‑platform system validation and interoperability for next‑generation NVMe SSD products. You will architect scalable validation strategies, drive engineering excellence, and mentor teams across firmware, hardware, QA, and tools/automation to deliver customer‑grade quality at scale.

You will collaborate with FW, HW, and architecture to influence design and release decisions, reduce cycle times, and elevate test coverage while guiding