Principal Customer Validation Engineer, SSD

Micron Technology; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Enterprise SSD Validation Engineering team. This role involves setting validation strategies, ensuring product quality, and collaborating across multiple teams to optimize testing processes and results. The ideal candidate will have a degree in engineering, significant validation experience, and a strong technical background.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans

Paid family leave

Robust paid time-off program

Paid holidays

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product validation experience required.
• Ability to read and analyze firmware and hardware issues.
• Experience with Agile methodology is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define validation strategies and implement product test cycles.
• Drive efficiency and effectiveness in testing procedures.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with multiple engineering teams.

Skills

Validation experience

Technical leadership

Agile product development

Quality improvement methodologies

Understanding of Python

Education

Bachelors Degree in engineering

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.

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 include, but not limited to:

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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