Principal Customer Validation Engineer

1000 Micron Technology, Inc.; Longmont (CO); On-site; USD 145,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Paid family leave

Paid time-off and holidays

Job summary

1000 Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking a Technical Authority for Customer Validation based in Longmont, Colorado. This role involves overseeing end-to-end customer validation processes and requires 8+ years of engineering experience. Responsibilities include leading customer validation strategies and aligning cross-functional teams to ensure qualification success.

The base salary is between $145,000 and $247,000 annually, with additional benefits like healthcare plans, paid time off, and more.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in customer, system, or product validation engineering.
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing validation programs with significant technical impact.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering domains.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Customer Validation Lead for strategic customers.
• Define and own customer validation strategy and risk mitigation.
• Drive alignment between customer requirements and internal teams.

Skills

Customer-facing validation engineering

Technical leadership

Analytical judgment

Interpersonal skills

Complex technical initiative leadership

Deep expertise in SSD systems

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

Technical authority and lead for customer validation responsible for end-to-end customer validation approach, execution oversight, and multi-functional alignment across major customers, platforms, and product lines. Operates with broad autonomy and drives high-impact decisions that influence customer confidence, qualification success, and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Customer Validation Lead (CVL) for strategic customers, hyperscalers, or OEMs.
• Define and own customer validation strategy, test depth, acceptance criteria, and risk mitigation.
• Lead qualification planning, execution readiness reviews, and customer closure decisions.
• Drive alignment between customer requirements and internal validation, firmware, and system teams.
• Provide technical leadership for complex, multi-domain validation and debug challenges.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in customer, system, or product validation engineering.
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing validation programs with significant technical impact.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering domains.
• Deep expertise in enterprise SSD systems, storage behavior, and system-level interactions.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to assess and manage technical risk under ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience influencing validation strategy and driving quality improvements at scale.
• Comfort serving as final technical authority for validation scope and outcomes.
• Proven ability to coordinate multi-functional teams including firmware, hardware, and systems engineering.
• Strong customer-facing interpersonal skills for technical briefings and resolving critical issues.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Salary

The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full‑time position is: $145,000.00 - $247,000.00 a year. Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity. The pay scale is subject to change depending on business needs.

Benefits

Micron offers a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations, enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time‑off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

EEO Statement

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.