Senior AI Memory Systems Engineer

Micron Technology, Inc.; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 376,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology, Inc. in San Jose seeks a Systems Engineer to join the DRAM Systems Engineering team. You will develop, evaluate and optimize next‑generation memory systems for AI accelerators, focusing on hardware architecture, OS interactions, and performance analysis.

Responsibilities include characterizing AI inference workloads, building tiered memory hierarchies, and prototyping agentic AI workflows. Strong C/C++ and Python programming and Linux experience are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in memory systems, performance analysis, and operating system interactions.
• Experience with AI accelerator workloads and memory hierarchy design.
• Strong systems programming and debugging capabilities across Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Characterize AI inference workloads and examine memory behavior.
• Build and evaluate tiered memory hierarchies for AI accelerators.
• Study KV cache lifecycles, MoE models, and data placement strategies.
• Compare and optimize explicit versus hardware-assisted data movement.
• Develop, test, debug, and detail system-level and OS components.
• Prototype and evaluate agentic AI systems and workflows using modern frameworks.

Skills

Memory systems

Operating systems

Distributed systems

Parallel computing

C/C++

Python

Linux environments

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10+ years experience

Master's or PhD degree

Tools

CUDA

OpenCL

Job description

Micron Technology, Inc. in San Jose seeks a Systems Engineer to join the DRAM Systems Engineering team. You will develop, evaluate and optimize next‑generation memory systems for AI accelerators, focusing on hardware architecture, OS interactions, and performance analysis.

Responsibilities include characterizing AI inference workloads, building tiered memory hierarchies, and prototyping agentic AI workflows. Strong C/C++ and Python programming and Linux experience are required.