As a Principal Engineer at Sandisk, Inc., your responsibilities will include:
- Leading validation activities on RPG Products portfolio who will be working on the below
- Define Test Plan/Design, test cases and develop Test Scripts to validate RPG products. Protocols include but not limited to USB (Up to and Beyond Gen4, SD, nVME)
- As a validation lead, you will own/drive the product validation of all retail products for different market segments such as Mainstream+, Mainstream, Essential, Desktop. SanDisk is a market leader in these products.
- You will drive all validation functions including but not limited to Platform compatibility, power and performance, reliability, regulatory and safety compliance from conception till mass production
- You will work with systems architecture team to define validation architecture, infrastructure requirements, test plan development and execution for the lifecycle of the product
- You will also work with test development and automation team to define requirements for tools and automation test environment
- you would demonstrate high degree of skills to understand one or more areas of FW: Front End (USB/SDIO/NVMe protocol to be precise), Back end/Media management, FTL or Security.
- You would also exhibit high degree of competency in understanding NVMe/PCIe specifications, along with understanding Customer specific requirements.
- You will be working in partnership with Firmware development teams through the lifecycle of the product while finding defects and validating the fixes by creating grey and Whitebox tests.
- 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 collaborate with others to achieve goals and task completion. Comprehend and articulate validation strategies, plans and status.
- Review, track and document test results and sightings.
- Drive issues to closure by interfacing/collaborating with other product development teams