Principal Design Verification Quality Engineer

1000 Micron Technology, Inc.; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Income protection

Job summary

Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking a senior verification leader to drive DRAM verification quality strategies and end-to-end verification improvements. You will own the JAMA verification framework, coordinate across sites, and advance AI-driven verification initiatives with robust traceability.

The role requires 10+ years in design/verification, strong DRAM expertise, and proficiency with SystemVerilog, UVM, and Linux-based tools. Collaborative leadership in a global setting is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in design, verification, or product validation engineering, including DRAM verification and hands-on work with testbenches, stimulus generation, and failure debug.
• Strong expertise in digital and analog design verification concepts and methodologies.
• Solid VLSI fundamentals and DRAM architecture understanding.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to drive cross-functional issues.
• Experience with Linux and EDA tools such as Cadence Virtuoso.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive DRAM verification quality strategies, including AI-driven methodologies.
• Lead end-to-end verification flow analysis for workflow simplification and cycle-time improvements.
• Own JAMA verification requirements system and ensure alignment across teams.
• Support AI-driven verification initiatives and integrate AI tools with strong traceability.

Skills

DRAM verification expertise

AI-driven methodologies

Linux environment

VLSI fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Testbenches and failure debug

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

SystemVerilog

UVM

SpectreFx

PrimeSim

Job description

Responsibilities

Verification Quality and Methodology Governance

Define and drive DRAM verification quality strategies, including AI-driven methodologies, ensuring verification activities meet high standards for quality, consistency, traceability, and verification-miss reduction. Drive a closed-loop silicon learning and verification improvement process by applying core DRAM design and verification expertise to systematically close silicon failure gaps and embed the learnings into verification requirements and BKMs to prevent recurrence and reduce the number of DITs and reticles. Lead end-to-end verification flow analysis for workflow simplification and cycle-time improvements. Engage with design and verification teams across sites and levels to align on methodology, drive decisions, and communicate tradeoffs as products, features, and design methodologies evolve.

JAMA System Ownership, Improvement, and Scalable Execution

Own, manage, and evolve the JAMA verification requirements system as the verification standard across project families and pillars. Ensure VE Core Leadership is aligned with updates and improvements through the JAMA notification system. Ensure requirements, BKMs, and tools remain current and relevant to internal development needs and industry-standard practices.

AI and Pathfinding: Verification Acceleration and Next-Gen Methodology Support

Support AI-driven verification initiatives that measurably improve efficiency and effectiveness—including driving automation of requirement decomposition, task generation, coverage-gap detection, failure clustering, debug acceleration, and workflow orchestration. Define success metrics and converge pilot prototypes into robust, supportable verification workflows. Ensure AI tools integrate safely into engineering practices with strong traceability and quality controls.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in design, verification, or product validation engineering, including DRAM verification and hands‑on work with testbenches, stimulus generation, and failure debug.
• Strong expertise in digital and analog design verification concepts and methodologies, with experience developing or applying robust, scalable verification flows.
• Solid VLSI fundamentals, including digital logic, semiconductor concepts, and DRAM architecture and operation, with the ability to analyze circuit behavior and translate learnings into improved verification methods.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to drive ambiguous, cross‑functional technical problems to closure.
• Experience working in a Linux environment and with industry‑standard EDA tools, including Cadence Virtuoso.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to define and drive clear, structured, and scalable verification processes or flows across projects or teams.
• Experience with requirements management, tracking systems, and structured documentation workflows (e.g., JAMA, JIRA).
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability to learn and apply new DRAM concepts and verification methodologies.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior engineers through technical leadership and guidance.
• Interest or experience in applying AI‑enabled approaches to improve verification efficiency, quality, or scalability.
• Hands‑on experience developing analog and digital verification testbenches, using industry‑standard tools such as SystemVerilog, UVM, SpectreFx, and PrimeSim.
• Advanced scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, Perl, Tcl, or similar) applied to verification automation or data analysis.

Benefits

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.