Senior SSD Hardware Architect — PCIe & SI Leader

1000 Micron Technology, Inc.; Longmont (CO); On-site; USD 164,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

Job summary

Micron Technology is seeking a highly skilled SSD Hardware Engineer to lead development of next-generation SSD products. You will work on hardware architecture, high-speed digital design, and system integration, with emphasis on PCIe, DDR, ONFI and SI/PI analyses.

You will collaborate with firmware, validation, and manufacturing teams to ensure design-for-excellence and reliability across the product lifecycle, while mentoring engineers and leveraging AI-enabled tooling to accelerate workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years hardware build experience in SSD, storage, or high-performance computing systems.
• Experience with board bring-up, soldering, hardware debugging, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and schematic/layout review.
• Experience within the semiconductor, storage, or related technology industries.
• Proven ability to lead engineering projects and drive execution.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure hardware builds meet firmware, system, performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
• Participate in system architecture definition, build reviews, requirements development, and product planning for SSD solutions.
• Conduct signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) analysis, simulation, validation, and characterization tasks.
• Document, communicate, and present build results and recommendations to collaborators.
• Evaluate build proposals, perform engineering tradeoff studies, and recommend efficient build solutions.
• Build hardware for high-volume manufacturing with DFx, cost optimization, reliability, and quality considerations.
• Own SSD hardware development activities throughout the lifecycle, including schematic capture, simulations, worst-case analysis, component derating, validation, and production support.
• Define PCB stack‑up specifications, signal transmission methods, component arrangement, routing limitations, and board-level SI/PI considerations.
• Work closely with firmware, validation, manufacturing, reliability, and customer support teams during development, qualification, and RMA investigations.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers at early career stages and peers.
• Leverage AI-based tools and automation technologies to accelerate build, validation, debug, and engineering workflows.

Skills

PCIe expertise

High-speed signal integrity

Power integrity

Board bring-up

Mentor engineers

Troubleshooting

Oscilloscopes

SPICE modeling

Schematic capture tools

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SPICE

Schematic capture tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

PCIe compliance equipment

PCB layout tools

Job description

Micron Technology is seeking a highly skilled SSD Hardware Engineer to lead development of next-generation SSD products. You will work on hardware architecture, high-speed digital design, and system integration, with emphasis on PCIe, DDR, ONFI and SI/PI analyses.

You will collaborate with firmware, validation, and manufacturing teams to ensure design-for-excellence and reliability across the product lifecycle, while mentoring engineers and leveraging AI-enabled tooling to accelerate workflows.