Staff Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Apps)

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.

We are hiring a Staff Engineer to join our AI Platform team building and operating our enterprise AI platform for engineering workflows. This role is focused on the foundational platform layer — Agentic systems, MCP ecosystem, LLM gateway, memory and knowledge infrastructure, and platform observability — that powers AI applications across Flash Product's Group.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Platform Development: Design, build, and maintain core components of the Nexus platform, including agentic orchestration (LangGraph / Deep Agents), MCP servers and gateway integrations, memory and knowledge systems, and the LLM gateway layer.
• Agentic Systems: Develop and extend multi-agent workflows, tool-calling pipelines, and conversational AI experiences across Nexus Builder, Nexus Chat, and purpose-built applications.
• MCP Ecosystem: Build OIDC-compliant MCP servers that expose enterprise data and tools (Jira, test management, internal systems) to agents in a secure, governed way.
• Reliability & Observability: Drive platform stability through environment separation, monitoring, tracing, evaluation pipelines, and incident response practices.
• Technical Leadership: Own technical decisions within assigned workstreams, conduct design reviews, and mentor engineers on agentic patterns, LLM application design, and production AI best practices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with InfoSec, Cloud Infrastructure, IAM, and product engineering teams to ship platform capabilities that meet enterprise requirements.
• Continuous Innovation: Stay current with advances in LLMs, agentic frameworks, and AI infrastructure; evaluate and integrate new technologies into the Nexus roadmap.

Required:

• Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Approximately 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact building production AI/ML systems or developer platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Python; working knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript and React.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and the Hugging Face ecosystem.
• Practical understanding of LLMs, transformers, embeddings, RAG architectures, and agentic design patterns.
• Experience integrating with LLM providers and gateways (Anthropic, OpenAI, Portkey, or equivalent), and familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes with Docker, including hybrid on-prem / cloud topologies.
• Comfort with relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), in-memory (Redis / Valkey), and vector databases.
• Familiarity with OAuth / OIDC, SSO, and enterprise security and compliance practices.

Preferred: 

• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineering and leadership audiences.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives end-to-end, work independently, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Bias for action, ownership mindset, and a track record of shipping in fast-moving environments.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous problems, design pragmatic solutions, and debug complex issues across the AI/ML and infrastructure stack.

Summary of skill sets:

• Programming: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, GraphQL
• AI/ML & Agents: LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, PyTorch/TensorFlow, RAG, MCP, agentic frameworks
• Platform & Infra: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, REST APIs, CI/CD
• Data: RDBMS (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), in-memory (Redis/Valkey), vector databases
• Security & Identity: OAuth, OIDC, SSO, enterprise auth patterns

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 08/14/2026 (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.