Principal Design Verification Quality Engineer

Job Title

Principal Design Verification Quality Engineer

Role Summary

Lead verification methodology and quality for DRAM across product families. Drive AI-enabled verification workflows, standardization, and traceability while collaborating with design teams to reduce silicon failures, improve cycle time, and increase confidence in silicon.

Experience Level

Senior level — Principal engineer. Requires 10+ years of experience in design, verification, or product validation engineering, with DRAM verification experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Accountable for verification quality, methodology, and scalable execution across projects and sites:

• Define and enforce DRAM verification quality strategies, metrics, and traceability standards.
• Lead closed-loop silicon learning: translate silicon failures into verification requirements and best-known-methods to prevent recurrence.
• Analyze and simplify end-to-end verification flows to reduce cycle time and verification misses.
• Own and evolve the JAMA requirements system as the verification standard across families and pillars.
• Drive AI-enabled verification initiatives: requirement decomposition, coverage-gap detection, failure clustering, debug acceleration, and workflow orchestration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional design and verification teams to align on methodology and technical tradeoffs.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• 10+ years in design, verification, or product validation engineering with DRAM experience and hands-on work with testbenches, stimulus generation, and failure debug.
• Strong expertise in digital and analog verification concepts and experience developing or applying scalable verification flows.
• Solid VLSI fundamentals, including digital logic, semiconductor concepts, and DRAM architecture and operation.
• Experience working in a Linux environment and with industry-standard EDA tools (including Cadence Virtuoso).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proven ability to drive ambiguous, cross-functional technical problems to closure.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with requirements management and tracking systems (e.g., JAMA, JIRA) and structured documentation workflows.
• Hands-on experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, SpectreFx, PrimeSim, and verification automation (Python, Tcl, Perl, or similar).
• Proven ability to define and scale verification processes across projects or teams and to mentor junior engineers.
• Interest or experience applying AI approaches to improve verification efficiency, quality, or scalability.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (explicitly stated as a minimum requirement).

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.