Principal Customer Validation Engineer, SSD

Micron Technology, Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology is seeking a motivated engineer to join the Enterprise SSD Validation Engineering team in New York. This role involves technical ownership of validation, collaborating across multiple teams, and ensuring the quality of SSD products. Candidates should possess 8+ years of validation experience and a Bachelor's degree in engineering. Micron is committed to innovation in memory and storage solutions, providing an exciting opportunity for professional growth and impact in the semiconductor industry.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans

Paid family leave

Paid time-off program

Professional growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of validation experience required.
• Ability to understand and analyze firmware, software, and hardware issues.
• Experience with Agile product development processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead product validation efforts ensuring timely market entry.
• Review and enhance test plans to improve effectiveness.
• Define and implement test automation strategies.

Skills

Technical leadership

Validation experience

Firmware analysis

Quality improvement methodologies

Embedded C

Understanding of Python

Education

Bachelors Degree in an engineering field

Job description

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

Department Intro:

The Non-Volatile Engineering Group (NVEG), a division within the Technology and Products Group (TPG), is dedicated to advancing non-volatile memory technologies like NAND. Our primary mission is to innovate and develop groundbreaking solutions that improve the performance and reliability of non-volatile memory products.

Position Overview:

Micron is looking for a motivated engineer to join our growing Enterprise SSD Validation Engineering team! This team works as an integral part of our enterprise SSD development and validation process, ensuring our products are timely to market and outstanding quality in the field. You will partner multi-functionally and cross-site with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, and other engineering groups to collaborate in developing strategies to implement validation outputs.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Ownership
  • Serve as the domain authority for validation on customer test requirements, associated industry certifications and results.
  • Reviews and challenges current test plans, coverage, and testing activities to drive both increased effectiveness and efficiencies across the product portfolio
  • Recommend and instrument new validation approaches that drive better coverage, more accurate testing, and expanded testing services
  • Apply technical, project, and delegation experience to actively lead product test cycles
• Requirements Analysis
  • Study of product requirements in order to verify testability and identify suitable testing equipment
  • Feedback & influence design for the definition and implementation of new requirements/ performances
• Validation Strategy
  • Definition of test cases to verify functional and not functional requirements are compliance to system requirements
  • Working with product design developing coherently with FW and HW architecture
  • Identification of PASS/FAIL criteria for test cases in term of number of cycles, statistical and temperature
  • Enable shift-left efforts to move detection of failures from customer tests to internal-developed and maintained test frameworks
• Test Implementation
  • Define the Test Implementation Strategy and Software Architecture to encompass both development and debug.
  • Define, plan and implement a test automation strategy, to participate to the ongoing development of in-house automation frameworks/tools.
  • Constantly evaluate, refine and implement validation processes/methodologies
• Test Execution
  • Supplying and Pre-formatting of samples for validation
  • Execution of Product Validation flow to match programmed validation plan
  • Monitoring of test time – Test time reduction
  • Results analysis – Bin Pareto
  • Report Generation - Report data in a clear format including concise comments about findings
  • Track document revision to provide historical reference.
• Defect Management
  • Root-cause and drive failures coming from upstream/downstream validation teams, customers and other partners to closure, while also articulating the associated risk.
  • Implement detailed clear steps to reproduce failures while providing traceability to the bugs/gaps/escapes.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to assess test results and generate deviation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in an engineering field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of validation experience, with ability to craft and implement product test strategies.
• Ability to read and understand FW code analyze firmware, software (Windows & Linux), and hardware issues in system with experience in ASIC/ FPGA design and FPGA design tools.
• Embedded C and an understanding of an Object-Oriented Programming language
• Technical leadership experience
• Experience with Agile product development processes and project management
• Experience with quality and process improvement methodologies and tools (Lean, Six Sigma, value stream mapping, FMEAs, DMAIC)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep of knowledge of enterprise SATA & PCIe SSDs, NAND, memory storage hierarchy and enterprise storage. General knowledge of SATA/SAS and/or NVMe storage protocols
• Understanding of Python

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer 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.

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, or local laws.

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