Micron
Principal Engineer, Customer Validation
$145K–$247K
Longmont-MAX- Office, CO · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in customer, product, or system validation roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Leads hands-on customer-focused system validation of enterprise and data-center SSDs, including execution, debugging, qualification, and coordination across engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Plan and run customer-specific system and SSD validation cycles, regressions, and qualification runs.
- Maintain validation environments, analyze results, debug issues, and develop test cases, scripts, and automation.
- Own validation execution for assigned programs, contribute to test strategy, and mentor developing engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in customer, product, or system validation roles.
- Strong knowledge of NVMe and PCIe protocols, with debugging across system, firmware, and hardware domains; hands-on system-level validation experience.
- Experience collaborating with multi-functional engineering teams; proficiency in Python, C/C++, or similar languages and understanding of validation methodologies.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting OEM, hyperscale, or cloud customer qualification programs.
- Prior ownership of customer-facing platform validation, mentoring, or technical leadership.
Pay
$145,000.00 - $247,000.00 a year (USD, base salary)
Tools
NVMe, PCIe, Python, C/C++
AI focus
Applying Artificial Intelligence to improve organization-level working efficiency.
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