Staff Design Engineer, DRAM

Micron; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology is seeking a Staff Design Engineer for our DRAM team to own circuit design decisions and drive parasitic modeling, floorplanning, and tape-out for next-generation memory products.

You will collaborate with design, verification, product, and manufacturing to deliver high-quality silicon, while leveraging Generative AI tools to speed up design, analysis, and documentation. Excellent grounding in CMOS/VLSI and mixed-signal design is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in CMOS and VLSI circuit design across digital and analog domains.
• Hands-on mixed-signal design experience, including schematic design, layout, and circuit simulation using industry-standard tools.
• Experience with power distribution design, parasitic modeling, and tape-out flows.

Responsibilities

• Design, lay out, and optimize Memory, Logic, and Analog circuits for new memory products
• Handle parasitic modeling and support design validation, reticle experiments, and tape-out revisions
• Oversee the layout process, including floor-planning, placement, and routing
• Run verification through modeling and simulation using industry-standard simulators
• Partner with Marketing, Probe, Assembly, Test, Process Integration, and Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability, and use Generative AI tools to speed up design, analysis, and documentation while owning correctness and signoff

Skills

CMOS/VLSI design

Mixed-signal design

Schematic design

Layout optimization

Power distribution design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Schematic capture tools

Layout tools

Industry-standard simulators

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. At Micron, we design the memory that moves the world — from advanced DRAM to complete silicon-to-systems solutions! Our design teams work at the leading edge of memory technology, and we collaborate across the globe to turn ambitious ideas into world-class products. If you want your work to show up in the devices billions of people rely on, this is the place to do it.

As a Staff Design Engineer on our DRAM team, you'll shape the circuits at the heart of our next memory generations. You'll own design decisions that directly affect cost, quality, reliability, and time-to-market, and you'll partner with talented engineers across design, verification, product, and manufacturing. This is a role for someone who enjoys working close to silicon and wants real ownership over the products they help create.

Responsibilities

• Design, lay out, and optimize Memory, Logic, and Analog circuits for new memory products
• Handle parasitic modeling and support design validation, reticle experiments, and tape-out revisions
• Oversee the layout process, including floor-planning, placement, and routing
• Run verification through modeling and simulation using industry-standard simulators
• Partner with Marketing, Probe, Assembly, Test, Process Integration, and Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability, and use Generative AI tools to speed up design, analysis, and documentation while owning correctness and signoff

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in CMOS and VLSI circuit design across digital and analog domains
• Hands-on mixed-signal design experience, including schematic design, layout, and circuit simulation using industry-standard tools
• Experience with power distribution design, parasitic modeling, and tape-out flows

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• DRAM or memory circuit design experience, including arrays, periphery, or datapath
• Familiarity with PEX and PVT corner analysis
• Experience using Generative AI tools (Copilot, Claude, or internal flows) for design, documentation, or debug

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.

Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.

Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.