NAND Product Engineer

Summary

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intellectual and inspiring, people innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products.

The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product.

About the role

In your role as a NAND Product Engineer, you will help define Apple's mass storage solutions for our current line of world-class products as well as have direct technical impact on what our future product capabilities will be. This is an extraordinary opportunity to showcase your skills in flash memory process and in device, test, and system engineering. In this role, you will use your career success and technical depth to handle external suppliers and drive items to closure across large, multi-functional teams. At Apple, we hire champions for quality and best-in-class product solutions.

Responsibilities

• Communicate vendor/supplier NAND roadmap to internal technical and management teams
• Manage vendor NAND die productization readiness to meet Apple's requirements (quality, performance, reliability, schedule)

Manage component vendors to meet spec and schedule requirements

• Support internal engineering teams in failure analysis and defining corrective actions
• Perform large volume data statistical analysis, identify anomalies, commonality studies
• Present the risk assessment and status to cross functional teams and leaderships

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree
• Experience in NAND development, specifically with product engineering, design, and/or process integration aspects of the technology
• Experience with NAND failure analysis, testing and/or debug efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in a technical subject area and 10+ years of relevant experience
• Ability to do hands-on measurements of NAND array and connect single-cycle transistor properties, to full product operation
• Experience across multiple-lithos spanning basic device definition through final qualification
• Understanding of key NAND system specifications, with respect to embedded NAND and SSD solutions
• Profeciency in failure analysis of NAND storage issues and in competitor analysis of NAND die and solutions
• Experience with NAND flash engineering, flash memory technology and processing
• 3-D NAND development experience
• Organizational and problem-solving skills