Sandisk

Technology

PrincipalEngineer,SoftwareDevelopmentEngineering(Apps)

$250–400k ~AI est. Milpitas, California, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Apps) at Sandisk. Skills: Enterprise AI platform, Agentic systems, LLM gateway, AI engineering. Co-own architecture for Nexus platform. Drive design decisions for agentic orchestration”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure platform scales securely and reliably

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Risk identification; Remediation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Master's or PhD in AI, ML, Data Science, CS, or related, 7+ years software engineering experience, 5+ years architecture or technical leadership, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Go/Java/C++, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, PyTorch or TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LLM internals, transformers, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, LLM providers and gateways (Anthropic, OpenAI), Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic design patterns, Design distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, Event-driven architectures, high-throughput data pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, hybrid on-prem and cloud topologies, Relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), in-memory (Redis)

Nice to Have

Experience with AI/ML platform architecture, Experience with agentic orchestration, Experience with LLM gateway, Experience with memory and knowledge layers, Experience with observability, Experience with platform applications, Experience with LangGraph, Experience with Deep Agents, Experience with modern agent frameworks, Experience with tool use patterns, Experience with multi-agent coordination, Experience with evaluation patterns, Experience with safety patterns, Experience with service design standards, Experience with API contract standards, Experience with security standards, Experience with identity standards, Experience with observability standards, Experience with developer experience standards, Experience with InfoSec, Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, Experience with IAM, Experience with Networking, Experience with product engineering teams, Experience with architecture reviews, Experience with enterprise architecture forums, Experience with governance processes, Experience with system design, Experience with distributed systems, Experience with AI engineering, Experience with production excellence, Experience with design reviews, Experience with code reviews, Experience with architecture deep dives, Experience with architectural risk identification, Experience with remediation, Experience with environment separation, Experience with incident response maturity, Experience with LLMs, Experience with agentic frameworks, Experience with AI infrastructure, Experience with POCs

What You'll Do.

Co-own architecture for Nexus platform

Drive design decisions for agentic orchestration

Drive design decisions for MCP ecosystem

Drive design decisions for LLM gateway

Drive design decisions for memory and knowledge systems

Drive design decisions for observability

Drive design decisions for platform applications

Define multi-quarter technical direction

Translate platform vision into roadmaps

Architect production-grade agentic workflows

Establish patterns for tool use

Establish patterns for multi-agent coordination

Establish patterns for evaluation

Establish patterns for safety

Establish and evolve standards for service design

Establish and evolve standards for API contracts

Establish and evolve standards for security

Establish and evolve standards for identity

Establish and evolve standards for observability

Establish and evolve standards for developer experience

Partner with Cloud Infrastructure

Partner with Networking

Partner with product engineering teams

Lead architecture reviews

Represent platform in enterprise architecture forums

Shepherd designs through governance processes

Coach Staff and Senior engineers

Raise technical bar across team

Identify architectural risks early

Lead platform evolution toward environment separation

Lead platform evolution toward observability

Lead platform evolution toward incident response maturity

Track advances in LLMs

Track advances in agentic frameworks

Track advances in AI infrastructure

Evaluate emerging technologies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Engineering leadership; InfoSec; Cloud Infrastructure; IAM; Networking; Product engineering teams; Enterprise architecture forums

Communication Scope

Technical documentation; Architecture reviews

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job 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. We are hiring a Principal Engineer to serve as an architect for our Enterprise AI platform for engineering workflows. This role partners with the existing platform architect to set technical direction across Nexus's hybrid on-prem and cloud architecture, lead design for agentic systems, MCP ecosystem, LLM gateway, memory and knowledge layers, and ensure the platform scales securely and reliably as adoption grows across FPG. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: * Architecture Leadership: Co-own end-to-end architecture for the Nexus platform across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments. Drive design decisions for agentic orchestration, MCP ecosystem, LLM gateway, memory and knowledge systems, observability, and platform applications. * Technical Strategy: Define multi-quarter technical direction in partnership with engineering leadership. Translate platform vision into actionable arc

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