Senior SSD Validation Engineer
Micron TechnologyJob Title
Senior SSD Validation Engineer
Role Summary
Lead validation activities for SSD products with primary responsibility for customer test requirements, test coverage, and test results. Act as the subject-matter expert to define, improve, and enforce validation methodologies and to drive failure diagnosis and closure.
The role sits on the SSD validation team and focuses on improving test effectiveness and efficiency, developing validation approaches and tools, and leading product test cycles to meet project scope and delivery dates.
Experience Level
Senior — the employer specifies a Bachelor's degree plus approximately 5 years of relevant engineering experience; this is a senior individual contributor role.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include ownership of validation strategy, execution, and failure resolution for customer-facing SSD tests.
- Serve as subject-matter expert on customer test requirements and results; review and challenge test plans and coverage.
- Recommend and implement new validation approaches to improve coverage and accuracy.
- Root-cause failures, articulate associated risk, and drive issues to closure.
- Evaluate, refine, and enforce validation processes and methodologies.
- Contribute to development and maintenance of in-house automation frameworks and validation tools.
- Plan and lead product test cycles, including schedules and strategies aligned to delivery dates.
- Enable shift-left testing to detect issues earlier in internal frameworks before customer tests.
Requirements
Essential skills and experience required for the role.
- Experience with customer test requirements and customer-facing validation activities.
- PCIe and NVMe log analysis experience.
- Drive debug and drive-level failure analysis.
- System-level debug log analysis.
- Experience owning OEM customer validation testing, requirements, and qualification processes.
- Proven ability to lead validation cycles, perform root-cause analysis, and communicate technical risk.
Education Requirements
Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field followed by 5 years of experience in the job offered or in an engineering-related occupation.
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.
