Micron
Staff Engineer, SSD Validation
$121K–$207K
Longmont-MAX- Office, CO · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
About the job
Leads validation, system integration, and joint qualification of enterprise and datacenter NVMe SSDs, ensuring product readiness for production on internal and customer platforms.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end system validation and qualification, including test planning, failure analysis, reporting, and customer joint qualification coordination.
- Perform hands-on system bring-up, debugging, and configuration; reproduce customer issues and convert findings into internal test cases.
- Develop automated test frameworks and Python tools, apply AI-enabled validation workflows, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in SSD, storage, or semiconductor validation, with deep knowledge of NVMe and PCIe protocols.
- Hands-on expertise with Linux, system setup, OS bring-up, drive triage, and root-cause analysis.
- Enterprise/datacenter SSD firmware validation experience, including system-level joint qualification; proficiency in Python for automation and data analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience with customer joint qualification efforts and familiarity with networked storage, platform interoperability, and multi-system qualification.
- Experience with protocol analyzers or third-party SSD test platforms; knowledge of NAND flash, storage architecture, and FTL development.
Pay
$121,000.00 - $207,000.00 USD a year (base salary)
Tools
NVMe, PCIe, Linux, Python, Lecroy, JDSU, UNH-IOL, SanBlaze
AI focus
Develop and use AI-enabled and AI-assisted validation workflows to improve validation efficiency, failure analysis, test coverage, and qualification processes.
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