Staff Engineer - SSD Hardware

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

Seeking a self-motivated, team-oriented board design engineer to develop Micron’s next generation Solid State Drive (SSD) products. This position requires experience in hardware architecture, design, testing, signal integrity and power supply design. This would include modeling and simulation for high speed signaling implementations and power supply design including power distribution network (PDN) simulations. A successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of: state of the art memory device technologies, interfaces such as SATA, SAS, PCIe Gen 4&5, ONFI and implementation techniques required for high-speed interfaces. In addition, this candidate will have a good working knowledge of Buck and boost power supply designs. Experience with PCB design tools (Cadence PCB design and analysis, including Si/Pi. Expertise in the design for optimum signal and power integrity as well as hands-on lab experience is a must. Also, a thorough understanding of hardware development methodologies to achieve a first pass design success.

• Duties and Responsibilities

• Document and communicate results with cross functional counterparts.
• Interface in cross functional teams to ensure the design meets all firmware, diagnostic and system level requirements.
• Participate in architecture definition, design reviews, requirements generation of SSD products.
• Design and Architect SSD platforms with custom SSD Controllers, NAND and DRAM for cost sensitive SSD products.
• Design and Architect power systems targeted for cost sensitive SSD products.
• Simulate and analyze design proposals, review results and provide recommendations on optimal design practices to other design engineers.
• Design with schematic capture and design constraints utilizing Cadence PCB design tools. 
• Run simulations of all power systems utilizing SPICE simulation tools and models.  
• Evaluation of Worst-case analysis, simulations and de-rating.
• Design with understanding of signal integrity behavior of high-speed interfaces.
• PCB back-end process: defining stack-up and via technologies, part placement, setting design constraints, signal integrity and power integrity analysis
• Experienced in designing hardware for large scale manufacture, including DFx and low-cost considerations
• Define test plans for verification of Power Management ICs and power systems.
• Define test equipment and procedures required to complete hardware verification of SSD and focused Power Management IC testing. 
• Perform basic Signal and power integrity measurements
• Perform hands on power system and power integrity testing using procedures and test equipment. 
• Perform margin-based testing with focus on Voltage / Temp / Process and test to fail conditions.
• Perform temperature-based testing within chambers and developing scripts and automation to improve efficiency.   
• Interface with cross functional teams to ensure the PMIC and PCB design meets all requirements. (Diagnostic Firmware, system level, procurement supply chain and manufacturing).
• Works proactively with cross functional team members during design, verification as well as on RMAs
• In addition to design, a successful Engineer will mentor and provide technical guidance to other hardware team members
• Successful Engineer will modify existing and develop new test procedures to improve test coverage 

Critical Skills

• Self-motivated. Desire to take on challenges. Result-driven and details oriented.
• Able to lead an SSD Hardware project with a team to completion.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must.
• Strong analog experience at the board level for power system design.
• Strong in transmission line fundamentals. Understand the fundamentals of time-domain vs. frequency-domain. 
• Strong In-depth knowledge in circuit designs, as well as semiconductor design.
• Strong PCB design experience on high-speed signals routing guideline and review, power copper routing and review, design for EMI/ESD protection.
• Design for signal integrity, including SerDes, power and interconnect. 
• Develops solutions to complex technical problems, which require ingenuity and creativity.
• Strong analog design using simulation e.g. SPICE (or equivalent).
• Strong practical experience with design tools: Cadence, Allegro, Sigrity, Allegro Power-Aware SI, Mentor Graphics HyperLynx
• Practical lab SI analysis experience using: High-bandwidth measurements (20-35GHz)
• PCIe Compliance equipment
• Strong understanding of how P/V/T and proper margining are used for design verification.  
• Experience with script (e.g. Python) development for automated testing of SSD or equivalent hardware
• Practical Lab experience with using soldering station and microscope.

Qualification Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering required; MS in Electrical Engineering is preferred
• 10+ years of relevant hardware design and validation experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent problem-solving skills

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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