Senior Firmware Engineer - Product Engineering

Staff Engineer, STPG PE Firmware

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.

Micron Technology's vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life and our commitment to people, innovation, tenacity, collaboration, and customer focus allows us to fulfill our mission to be a global leader in memory and storage solutions. This means conducting business with integrity, accountability, and professionalism while supporting our global community.

As a Product Engineer at Micron Technology, you will be responsible for supporting the qualification of Micron’s leading-edge, next generation, non-volatile memory systems.  You will be working closely with the System Engineering team to determine root cause of system-level failures, working to drive corrective actions to component testing and qualification test flows with the Component Reliability and Qualification teams.  Overall, you will be considered the initial Product Engineering point-of-contact for component reliability issues inside the system.  As a secondary role, you will also provide critical support in the area of data analysis and automation.

Job Responsibilities

• As a Firmware Engineer at Micron Technology, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining manufacturing Firmware for testing of SSDs.
• During the development phase, you will need to work closely with Test Process Engineers to understand the test requirements to develop the Manufacturing FW to self-test SSDs.
• During the high volume manufacturing phase, drive continuous improvement initiatives in terms of test coverage to improve DPM and drive TTR improvements through optimization of code.
• It will also encompass driving Manufacturing FW release and validation plan to ensure smooth integration of the Manufacturing FW released to the production floor.
• Goal is to ensure that SSD manufactured are tested to meet or exceed the required functionality, usability, quality/reliability and performance with an efficient manufacturing firmware.
• Involving in End to End product development ,understand the system architecture to come up with new test screens to bring out the early life failures on the media.
• Get the required knowledge and involve in pre-mfg & MTFW development and validation.
• Work to improve the yield, quality, reduction in test time in different stages of program.

Skillset Required:

• Good C/C++ programming skills with experience in embedded system design and development
• Manufacturing firmware development experience on complex storage specific memory controllers.
• Ability to read and understand hardware schematics
• Debugging the complex production issues using inhouse debug environments.
• Define and improve testing methods to address new product characterization and qualification issues.
• Working experience in storage interface such as SATA, SAS, PCIE would be an advantage.
• Good understanding and experience with Unix/Linux operating systems is a plus.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.

Education & Experience:

Position requires minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with at least 3 years of relevant work experience.

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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Experience Level

Senior Level