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Consumer Product Manufacturing · 10000+ Employees · Milpitas, US
SanDisk, a Western Digital brand, is expanding the possibilities of storage. Our products are used in the world's leading-edge data centers, embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets, and laptops, and entrusted by consumers around the globe. From mobile devices to hyperscale data centers, SanDisk storage solutions make the incredible possible. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
Hiring: Engineering
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Interview experience · Senior Engineer
I gave the senior device R&D Engineer interview and it went quite well. Overall interview process (till the final offer) took ~ fifteen days. Interview was mostly on basics of semiconductor devices & Digital CMOS . Ther
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Overview
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.
Responsibilities
- Own and define the end-to-end validation strategy for the AI software stack.
- Establish validation methodologies, coverage metrics, quality gates, and release-readiness criteria.
- Lead validation efforts across operator libraries, runtime systems, execution frameworks, and AI workloads.
- Mentor engineers and drive best practices for automation, performance validation, and debugging. Functional Validation
- Validate neural network operators and compute kernels
- Validate graph-level execution and end-to-end model inference workflows.
- Verify numerical correctness against reference frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Ensure behavioral consistency across software releases and hardware revisions. Runtime & Execution Validation
- Validate memory allocation and movement across host and device environments.
- Execute stress, concurrency, and multi-device validation scenarios. Performance & Scalability Validation
- Design and maintain benchmarking frameworks for:
- Operator-level performance
- Model-level performance
- Latency and throughput
- Time-to-first-token/result
- Multi-device scaling efficiency Qualifications
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in AI software validation, systems software validation, performance engineering, or related areas.
- Strong C++ software development expertise.
- Strong Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals.
- Advanced Python programming for automation and test infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of:
- AI/ML execution pipelines
- Neural network operators
- Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch preferred)
- Runtime architectures
- Scheduling systems
- Parallel execution models
- Memory hierarchy and DMA concepts
- Experience validating large-scale AI workloads and inference systems.
- Proven experience building automated test and benchmarking frameworks.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills. Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MLIR, XLA, StableHLO, TVM, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, or similar compiler/runtime stacks.
- Experience validating GPU, NPU, FPGA, or custom accelerator platforms.
- Hands-on experience with profiling tools such as: VTune, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, perf, gprof
- Experience with distributed inference and multi-device execution.
- Familiarity with LLM, multimodal, and generative AI workloads.
- Experience leading software quality and validation teams.
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Last updated 19 October 2026
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