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 We re looking for a highly accomplished and visionary Principal Engineer to lead the development of our NPU firmware runtime for the Next Gen Computational Flash Controller project You ll be the technical owner of the device-side software stack that orchestrates all NPU operations This is a rare prospect to define the architecture of a high-performance compute platform from kernel scheduling to data orchestration at the deepest levels of the system Key Responsibilities Architectural Leadership Serve as the technical lead for the entire NPU firmware runtime You ll define the architecture for the communication and control plane that interacts with the host-side software stack via the PCIe driver Kernel Orchestration Design and implement the firmware for loading scheduling and executing kernels on the NPU You will optimize the entire workflow from host command receipt to ker