What You'll Do

Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a highly motivated, strategic DRAM Product Planning Manager to drive customer adoption and secure Samsung’s position as the lead supplier for DRAM-based memory solutions across a diverse range of applications. In this role, you will act as the vital bridge between top-tier customers and our internal engineering and business teams, managing the entire lifecycle from initial design-in to final qualification.

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy plus an average of

Reports To: Staff Engineer – R&D Product Development

Technical Engagement & Engineering Collaboration

• Drive Lead Supplier Status: Lead deep technical engagements with customer engineering teams to position Samsung's DRAM solutions as the primary choice for next-generation platforms.
• Hands-on Problem Solving: Facilitate collaborative engineering debugging and troubleshooting to resolve complex technical hurdles during evaluation, qualification, and mass production.
• Application-Specific Optimization: Analyze diverse customer system architectures to proactively propose optimized, cutting-edge memory solutions.

Co-Development Process Innovation

• Align Product Roadmaps: Establish and govern a structured co-development framework that syncs the customer’s hardware roadmaps with Samsung’s memory technology pipeline.
• Define Joint Specifications: Collaborate closely with customer architects to co-define product specifications, interfaces, and feature sets that yield mutual competitive advantages.
• Feedback Loop Management: Channel critical customer architectural insights back to internal R&D and product planning teams to influence the next generation of memory products.

Business Model Development & Monetization Strategy

• Value-Value Business Modeling: Design and implement innovative business models that move beyond commodity selling, focusing on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction and value-added memory features.
• Market-Specific Strategies: Formulate customized commercial and supply structures tailored to the unique dynamics of diverse application segments (e.g., Automotive, Server, Mobile, AI/HPC).
• Strategic Partnerships: Convert technical leadership into long-term commercial value, securing multi-year agreements and deep-rooted strategic alliances.

End-to-End Project Management

• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Serve as the central program manager aligning multiple internal stakeholders—including Sales, Marketing, R&D, and Quality Assurance—with the customer’s milestones.
• Milestone Execution: Manage the entire execution pipeline from design-in, validation, and qualification (Qual) through to seamless mass production transition.
• Risk & Timeline Management: Proactively identify project risks, execute mitigation strategies, and guarantee time-to-market delivery according to aggressive customer schedules.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related Physical Science with 10+ years of experience or Master’s degree with 8+ Years of Industry Experience or PhD with 5+ years of Industry Experience.
• Memory & System Expertise: Strong understanding of DRAM design/architecture, system-level operations (RAS, Memory Controller, memory PHY), and product support.
• Hardware Analysis: Background in SI/PI (Signal/Power Integrity) and timing measurements.
• Semiconductor Fundamentals: Familiarity with fab processes, semiconductor manufacturing, and advanced packaging.
• Deep understanding of 2.5D/3D integration (TSV, Micro-bumping, and Hybrid Bonding).
• Customer & Leadership Track Record: Proven experience in customer-facing technical roles (Applications, Design, Validation, or Dev) leading enablement and debugging.
• Mobility: Flexibility to travel based on project and customer needs.
• Experience defining architecture and specifications for next-generation Custom HBM (HBM4+).
• Ability to plan active logic base-dies that integrate core IP (Memory Controller, advanced RAS, and processing elements).
• Proven track record collaborating with foundries (e.g., TSMC/Samsung Foundry/Intel Foundry advanced nodes) and design houses for custom silicon development.
• Experience defining customized interfaces (e.g., Die-to-Die PHY) for bespoke customer architectures (e.g., Hyperscaler XPUs, high-end GPUs).
• Analytical skills to evaluate system-level PPA (Power-Performance-Area) benefits and customer TCO optimization.
• You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people.
• An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding.
• You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches.
• Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change.

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