Micron
Staff Engineer, SSD Validation
$121K–$207K
Longmont-MAX- Office, CO · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in SSD, storage, or semiconductor validation.
- 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 SSD products, from system testing and debugging through production readiness.
What you'll do
- Lead system-level validation, qualification, test plans, failure analysis, and customer joint qualification coordination.
- Bring up and debug systems; validate operating systems, drivers, and storage stacks; reproduce customer issues and turn findings into test cases.
- Develop Python automation and test frameworks, improve validation coverage, 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 Linux, system setup, OS bring-up, drive triage, and complex issue root-cause analysis expertise.
- Enterprise/Datacenter SSD firmware validation and system-level joint qualification experience; Python proficiency for automation and data analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting customer joint qualification with OEMs, hyperscalers, or strategic partners.
- Familiarity with networked storage, platform interoperability, protocol analyzers, or third-party SSD test platforms.
Pay
$121,000.00 - $207,000.00 a year (USD, base salary)
Tools
NVMe, PCIe, Linux, Python, Lecroy, JDSU, UNH-IOL, SanBlaze
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