Principal Engineer, Reliability Engineering

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.

In this role you will have the opportunity to Work as Principal Engineer, Quality Assurance accountable for overall product quality of the NPI releases.

The Principal Engineer provides independent oversight of the design input process, design V&V activities, design transfer and product realization, and performance in the field to ensure that all design requirements are effectively met.

The Principal Engineer also provides analytics to the Business on the efficacy, efficiency of the design and product realization processes. Opportunity to learn End to End product development as Responsible Quality representative driving compliance throughout Product life cycle.

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our Quality and Reliability Engineering team.

The candidate is expected to have demonstrated proficiency in the philosophy of Quality.

The candidate should demonstrate strong systems engineering fundamentals across all critical engineering domains important to product quality.

The candidate should be able to challenge the status quo and be able to appropriately represent the “voice of the customer” to core teams while making decisions related to product quality. The ideal successful candidate

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of product quality from PRD to Production handover for high volume production development until sustaining.
• Single point of contact, representing and driving quality in all program team meetings.
• Conduct cross-site, cross-team lessons learned for any Quality issues during development and sustaining phases of Product Life-Cycle
• Participate in Engineering reviews ( PRD, DFx, Qualification sync, test plan, RDT ) and forecast potential quality risk
• Perform quality risk assessment to a project and drive for mitigations enabling business, apart from being a gatekeeper
• Identify process gaps in the Product Life Cycle (PLC) and continuously highlight improvement actions for the execution teams
• Influence quality culture and mindset across the company and bring in more strategic goals
• Demonstrated to take data based decisions and resolve contentions

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical/Electronic based Engineering
• 10 to 12yrs of certified professional experience in quality engineering
• Thorough understanding on Product Life Cycle and process-gap identification
• Exposure to factory processes and hands-on is a big advantage

Experience and hands-on in,

• E2E product development, factory and customer quality
• Driving product quality and reliability working with CFT, Six sigma GB/BB would be added advantage
• Design for Quality / Reliability, pFMEA, DFMEA, DFM, DFT, Root cause analysis
• NPI product development and sustenance
• Data analysis and data-based decision making and action
• Process improvements drives for structural quality improvements
• Influencing CFT for decisions of betterment of quality

Good understanding on

• Program Management
• Quality challenges and levers
• Product Qualification cycle
• RDT & ORT for Electronics

Have Demonstrated,

• Strong teamwork
• Communication and leadership capabilities in driving cross-functional working teams
• Strategically and methodically thinking to bring the right balance of product quality in meeting customer and company needs is essential to the success of this role
• Influencing skills

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

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