Principal Engineer, SSD Validation

Job Title

Principal Engineer, SSD Validation

Role Summary

Define and drive validation strategy, coverage architecture, and next-generation validation solutions for Micron's Data Center SSD portfolio. Translate customer requirements, product architectures, and field learnings into actionable validation strategies and reusable coverage solutions.

Collaborate with architecture, firmware, system, product, and validation teams and advance AI-assisted engineering capabilities to improve coverage analysis, requirements understanding, and validation decision-making.

Experience Level

Senior - 8+ years of relevant experience in Data Center SSD, storage systems, firmware, validation, systems engineering, or closely related disciplines.

Responsibilities

Drive validation strategy and deliver scalable coverage methodologies and tools for Data Center SSD programs.

• Define validation strategies and coverage architectures for next-generation Data Center SSD technologies and deployments.
• Develop scalable validation methodologies to improve coverage quality, execution efficiency, and risk assessment.
• Analyze customer requirements, product specifications, and architectures to derive validation requirements and coverage objectives.
• Lead coverage assessments and identify validation gaps across features, workloads, and system interactions.
• Create customer use-case-driven validation models and workload characterization strategies.
• Drive technology evaluation, innovation, and proof-of-concept development for next-generation validation initiatives.
• Apply AI-assisted techniques, Generative AI, and LLMs to improve requirements analysis, coverage assessment, and validation planning.
• Use data analytics and automation to improve coverage analysis, failure investigation, and validation planning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and present technical recommendations to engineering and executive leadership.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the validation community.

Requirements

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

• 8+ years of experience in Data Center SSD, storage systems, firmware, validation, systems engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong understanding of Data Center SSD architecture, NAND technologies, storage protocols, firmware algorithms, and enterprise storage systems.
• Proven experience developing validation strategies, qualification methodologies, coverage assessments, or architecture-level validation solutions.
• Ability to analyze complex technical requirements and translate them into effective validation approaches.
• Experience leveraging data analytics, automation, AI-assisted tools, or machine learning techniques to solve engineering challenges.
• Strong technical communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills; demonstrated ability to drive initiatives across multiple organizations.
• Nice-to-have: experience with hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise deployments; knowledge of NVMe, FDP, Dual Port, QLC, OCP SSD, virtualization, storage performance and reliability.
• Nice-to-have: experience with coverage modeling, risk assessment, workload characterization, requirements traceability, and applying Generative AI/LLMs or Agentic AI to engineering workflows.

Education Requirements

Required: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field. Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

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.