Job DescriptionJoin Sandisk's advanced memory technology development team in a rare director-level technical leadership role. As part of the device and productization team, you will drive the development of breakthrough memory technologies from pathfinding through productization while guiding cross-functional execution across the organization. This highly visible position offers broad technical ownership, executive exposure, and the opportunity to shape Sandisk's future technology and product roadmap.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Define and drive technology development strategy, key milestones, and cross-functional execution across device, array, process, and design engineering.
- Responsible for memory performance and reliability assessment, analyzing electrical data from devices and arrays to understand behavior, performance tradeoffs, and failure mechanisms.
- Develop and enhance characterization methodologies and wafer-level test techniques for emerging memory technologies.
- Provide regular technical updates to executive leadership on program status, risks, and key technology decisions.
- Mentor senior engineers and future team members as the organization grows.
- Reinforce industry best practices and strengthen execution discipline.
QualificationsRequired:- PhD or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field with 12+ years of industry experience.
- Experience in electrical characterization and development of emerging memory technologies such as SOM, PCRAM, MRAM, FeRAM or ReRAM.
- Proven track record of bringing emerging memory technologies from early development through qualification and volume production.
- Strong understanding of semiconductor device physics, reliability, and failure mechanisms.
- Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for executive and cross-functional audiences.
- Self-driven, able to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced development environment.
Preferred: - Demonstrated track record of innovation through patents, publications, and contributions to the company's intellectual property portfolio.
- Experience driving adoption of AI tools to accelerate engineering productivity and streamline technical work.
- Strong scripting, data analysis, test development, and automation skills.
Additional InformationBased on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be
12/16/2026 (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.
