Senior Staff Product Validation 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 Senior Staff Product Validation Engineer to join our organization in Bengaluru, India. In this role, you will lead comprehensive product validation initiatives, ensuring the highest standards of quality and reliability across our product portfolio.

As a senior-level engineer, you will drive validation strategies, mentor junior team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional products to market. Your expertise in testing methodologies, analytical mindset, and organized approach will be instrumental in identifying and resolving complex product issues before they reach customers. Define Test strategy, test Methodologies/tools, develop Test Cases and Scripts to validate SSD FW for NAND based Systems and Solutions.

Test areas will span across Functional, System level and Customer Qual centric tests. You would exhibit high degree of competency in understanding NVMe/PCIe specifications, NVMe Cloud SSD Specifications, along with understanding Customer specific requirements. You will be working in partnership with the SanDisk Hyperscale/Datacenter customers throughout the Product Life Cycle to improve the cycle time and customer quality of SanDisk’s SSD products.

Be able to demonstrate success in communicating status, issues, concerns, strategies of programs and projects - including development of appropriate indicators. Must be able to deal with ambiguity and operate with little direction to meet defined goals. Must be able to work with and through others to achieve goals and task completion. Comprehend and articulate validation strategies, plans and status.

  Experience 14+ Years in Embedded firmware or 10+ years in SSD Product Validation and debug from FW and a HW perspective would be a strong plus. Good hands-on experience in debugging NVMe Protocol issues using Lecroy/Viavi analyzers is must. Must have prepared good test strategy, test plans involving IO workloads, NVMe protocols, Performance and, Flash Translation Layer and Back End/ NAND Media management.

Prior experience in validating SSD FW and system for Datacenter Compute and Storage SSD Define, develop and implement new test methodologies/tools to test software, firmware and device validation test plan and test content. Possess good technical understanding and hands-on AI workloads like Training, Checkpointing, KV-cache, Agentic workload is a plus Integrate tests into an automated test environment and collaborate with test execution teams to drive validation plans/strategy.

Review, track and document test results and sightings Drive technical root-cause analysis for complex failures across firmware and system layers, utilizing telemetry and logs to resolve performance or data integrity bottlenecks. Own and scale the test infrastructure, improv