Staff Engineer, SSD Validation

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.

Responsibilities :

Technical Ownership

- Serve as the domain guide for validation on firmware architecture, product requirements, and associated industry and results.
- Reviews and challenges current test plans, coverage, and testing activities to drive both increased effectiveness and efficiencies across the product portfolio
- Recommend and instrument new validation approaches that drive better end-to-end coverage, more accurate testing, and expanded testing services
- Apply technical, project, and delegation experience to actively lead product test cycles

Requirements Analysis

- Study of product requirements in order to verify testability
- Identification of suitable testing equipment
- Feedback & influence product design for the definition and implementation of new requirements/ performances
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates

Validation Strategy

- Definition of test cases to verify that functional and non-functional requirements are complying to system requirements
- Working with product design for test cases developing coherently with FW and HW architecture to influence the CI/CD FW dev flow, gate-keep quality and shift left bug discovery
- Identification of PASS/FAIL criteria for test cases in term of number of cycles, statistical and temperature
- Enable shift-left efforts to move detection of failures from customer tests to internal-developed and maintained test frameworks

Test Implementation

- Define the Test Implementation Strategy and Software Architecture to encompass both development and debug.
- Define, plan and implement a test automation strategy, to supply to the ongoing development of in-house automation frameworks/tools.
- Constantly evaluate, refine and implement validation processes/methodologies

Test Execution

- Supplying and Pre-formatting of samples for validation
- Execution of Product Validation flow to match programmed validation plan
- Monitoring of test time - Test time reduction
- Results analysis - Bin Pareto
- Report Generation - Report data in a clear format including concise comments about findings
- Track document revision to provide historical reference.

Defect Management

- Root-cause and drive failures coming from upstream/downstream validation teams, customers and other partners to closure, while also articulating the associated risk.
- Implement systematic clear steps to reproduce failures while providing traceability to the bugs/gaps/escapes.
- Collaborate with partner teams to assess test results and generate deviation.

Qualifications and Skills

- BS in an engineering subject area or equivalent
- 8+ years of validation experience, with validated ability to craft and implement outstanding product test strategies.
- Deep of knowledge of PCIe SSDs, NAND, Memory storage hierarchy and NVMe Protocol.
- Strong Python scripting experience
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience with a proven track record to encourage and lead change.
- Ability to analyze problems, diagnose to root cause, and apply corrective actions

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich lifefor all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron and Crucial brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities - from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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