Principal Engineer System Architecture

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 Microns 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