Performance Architect

Job Description

Job Description

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

In this position, you will develop AI Storage Solutions based advanced system architectures and complex simulation models for Sandisk’s next generation products.  You will need to initiate and analyze changes to the architecture of the product. Typical activities include designing, programming, debugging, and modifying simulation models to evaluate these changes and assess the performance, power, and endurance of the product.

You will work closely with excellent colleague engineers, cope with complex challenges, innovate, and develop products that will change the data centric architecture paradigm.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Build SystemC performance models for AI Storage Solutions based products covering end-to-end from GPU / TPU / NPU / xPU, host interface, memory hierarchy, basedie controller, and AI Storage Solutions using various packaging technolgies
• Responsible for improving the AI / ML ASIC Architecture performance through hardware & software co-optimization, post-silicon performance analysis, and influencing the strategic product roadmap.
• Workload analysis and characterization of ASIC and competitive datacenter and AI solutions to identify opportunities for performance improvement in our products.
• Collaboration with Architecture team to resolve performance issues and optimize the performance and TCO of their AI Storage Solutions based datacenter technologies.
• Experience modeling one or some components of AI / ML accelerator ASICs such as AI Storage Solutions, PCIe / UCIe / CXL, NoC, DMA, Firmware Interactions, NAND, xPU, fabrics, etc
• Performance modeling and optimization for multi-trillion parameter LLM training / inference including Dense, Mixture of Experts (MoE) with multiple modalities (text, vision, speech)
• Model / optimize novel parallelization strategies across tensor, pipeline, context, expert and data parallel dimensions
• Architect memory-efficient training systems utilizing techniques like structured pruning, quantization (MX formats), continuous batching / chunked prefill, speculative decoding
• Incorporate and extend SOTA models such as GPT-4, Reasoning models like Deepseek-R1, and multi-modal architectures
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders / ML researchers to disseminate results and iterate at rapid pace

In the AI Storage Solutions Performance Architecture Group, we build on our depth in microarchitecture expertise and simulation to analyze and optimize high-performance ASIC designs for critical areas such as AI / MLAccelerators, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.

Qualifications

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Additional Information

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.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@sandisk.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 04 / 28 / 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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