Principal Engineer System Architecture

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.

Micron Technology is a leader in the semiconductor industry developing and manufacturing DRAM and NAND Flash products.  As part of the continued growth in non-volatile memory technologies, Micron continues to invest in the internal development of Solid State Drives (SSD).   As an SSD Systems Architect, you will work as an integral part of the architecture and product planning team to define storage systems for our customers.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

Your new responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Identify and define innovative product concepts and SSD architectures
• Maintain strong technical engineering relationships with customers, partner system architects and key technologists to identify and define innovative memory products
• Work with Micron technologists, design engineers and engineering teams to ensure successful implementation and feasibility demonstration of new product concepts
• Develop new product architecture specifications
• Help to choose concepts for feasibility demonstration
• Generate new intellectual property and patents
• Evangelize Micron's new products, technologies, and capabilities; attend and represent Micron at appropriate industry consortia, technical organizations, and technical conferences
• Identify key industry technical trends and competitive landscapes; stay abreast of new advanced technology and architecture trends in the market
• Modeling and analysis of performance, power and host driven workloads
• Generate system architecture specifications and provide system architectural requirements to our go-to-market teams

Experience:

Successful candidates for this position will have:

• A minimum of eight years of design, product, test, support, system, or applications engineering experience
• Systems experience, including:
  • SSD and or HDD architecture, design or analysis and/or troubleshooting
  • Operating systems:  Linux, Windows, VMware
  • Device drivers
  • Firmware-based storage devices
• Technical skills, including:
  • Detailed knowledge of NAND flash, solid state drives, and/or hard disk drives
  • Storage protocols:  SATA/ATA, SAS and/or NVMe
  • NAND interfaces:  ONFI, Toggle
  • NAND management:  error detection and correction
  • Storage systems:  RAID systems, blades and workstations
  • Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Highly organized, self-motivated and disciplined abilities
  • Ability to work with other engineers across multiple disciplines, as well as customers of various positions
  • Ability to travel and be available for international travel

Education:

• BSEE or equivalent required

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for 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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