Micron
Principal Engineer - HIG Component Validation
Boise, ID - Main Site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of semiconductor proven experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Leads validation strategy and readiness for future-generation HBM products, from pre-silicon simulation through post-silicon characterization.
What you'll do
- Define architecture-aware validation strategies, coverage direction, and testability requirements for HBM products.
- Prepare validation strategies, test environments, and execution plans before first silicon; identify risks and improve debug efficiency.
- Lead investigations of architecture, building, and silicon issues, collaborating across engineering and systems teams and promoting AI-enabled validation methods.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven expertise debugging DRAM/HBM issues pre-silicon and post-silicon.
- Experience analyzing schematics and conducting timing-accurate SPICE-level or transistor-level simulations.
- Experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog, Python, Linux, and version control systems (git, svn, Perforce).
Nice to have
- Experience defining validation strategy or coverage methodology for HBM or advanced DRAM products.
- Experience with design-for-validation/testability, validation hardware, lab equipment, high-speed I/O, signal integrity, or AI/ML and generative-AI solutions for validation, test, or debug.
Tools
Verilog/SystemVerilog, Python, Linux, git, svn, Perforce, SPICE
AI focus
Develop and promote AI-enabled validation methodologies; preferred experience includes defining or applying AI/ML or generative-AI solutions to validation, test, or debug workflows.
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