Manager, Systems Design and Architecture

Job Title

Manager, Systems Design and Architecture

Role Summary

Lead the Architecture and Hardware team in Micron’s Storage and Memory Systems (SMS) Pathfinding group to define system-level architecture, prototype hardware platforms, and conduct applied research for next-generation memory and storage technologies. Responsible for technical leadership, program execution, external collaboration, and delivering evaluations that inform product roadmaps.

Work includes architecture evaluation, FPGA-based prototyping, AI infrastructure integration, and cross-functional coordination with product groups and external partners.

Experience Level

Senior-level — typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Lead and execute system architecture, prototyping, and programs that quantify performance, power, and cost tradeoffs for advanced memory and storage technologies.

• Lead system-level architecture evaluation, prototyping, and pathfinding for CXL, DDR/LPDDR, HBM, NVMe, disaggregated memory, and FPGA-based controller emulation.
• Define requirements, success metrics, and experimental methodologies for performance, power, cost, and scalability.
• Collaborate with software, modeling, and product teams to validate architectures on real AI workloads.
• Manage multi-year internal and externally funded programs: milestones, deliverables, procurement, integration, lab bring-up, validation, and readiness.
• Engage vendors, research organizations, and standards bodies; support executive briefings and roadmap discussions.
• Manage, mentor, and develop senior engineers across hardware, RTL/FPGA, board design, and system validation.
• Own resource planning, staffing, budgets, lab safety, compliance, and operational continuity.

Requirements

Must-have technical and leadership qualifications; preferred items listed separately.

Must-have:

• 10+ years of experience in systems architecture, hardware design, storage, memory, or AI infrastructure.
• Proven experience leading and managing senior technical teams and complex engineering programs.
• Deep understanding of memory hierarchies, storage systems, and system-level performance analysis (HBM, DDR/LPDDR, SSDs, NAND).
• Working knowledge of AI compute and storage system architectures and xPU memory-storage interactions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including executive-level presentations.
• Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity and changing priorities.

Nice-to-have:

• FPGA-based prototyping, hardware emulation, RTL/verification flows, board-level development, electrical debug, and lab bring-up experience.
• System-level performance, power/energy/TCO modeling, and advanced packaging/interconnect evaluation experience.
• Experience with government-funded programs, national labs, or participation in standards bodies (JEDEC, UCIe, SNIA, NVMe, PCI-SIG).
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is required; Master’s or PhD is preferred. The posting pairs the degree expectation with a requirement for 10+ years of relevant experience.

About the Company

Company: Micron Technology

Headquarters: Boise, Idaho, USA

Micron Technology is a global leader in memory and storage solutions, dedicated to transforming how the world uses information. The company offers a diverse portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory products under the Micron and Crucial brands. With a commitment to customer focus and technological innovation, Micron drives advancements in artificial intelligence, 5G, and other data-centric applications, empowering users to learn, communicate, and progress.