As an SSD Design Engineer at Micron Technology, Inc., Solid State Drive (SSD) team, you responsible for taking solid state drives from design to high volume manufacturing.

This will involve product characterization, margin analysis, performance/power characterization, internal/external customer support, and manufacturing support. You will also be responsible for improving performance, improving testability, and identifying NAND/DRAM reliability issues Other areas of responsibility include electrical and physical failure analysis, implementation of new device qualifications, characterization development, and yield evaluation/improvement.

Additional Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Perform Test Development/Analysis

Develop and design test plans/scripts to evaluate new product features

Evaluate existing test plans/scripts to improve test coverage and efficiency

Identify and/or develop test tools to enable failure analysis and improve testability

Perform Product Test and Failure Analysis

Perform product testing to evaluate and support new product development

Analyze failures to determine root cause of issues

Drive issues to closure by interfacing/collaborating with other product development teams

Verify Architecture specifications to test plan alignment by generating a Master Test Plan on each product

Support Internal/External Customers

Provide technical support (e.g. failure analysis, questions, etc.) to any internal or external customer as part of product development

Provide Failure Analysis training to internal teams

Support customer and internal audits

Drive common debug strategy into individual programs

Safety and Procedure

Follow established policies and procedures

Drive common processes across System Engineering

Recognize and resolve safety or environmental issues, including assistance to develop appropriate procedures and documentation

Use available resources to complete tasks in a safe and efficient manner

For this position, you must have the ability to work in a team environment as well as the ability to work and maintain good relationships with worldwide suppliers and customers It is also essential that you have very good English verbal and written skills in addition to excellent documentation, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Technical capabilities should include:

• In depth knowledge of one or more interface standards such as SATA, SAS, and PCIe

• Understanding of NAND memory operation.

• Hands on experience with logic analyzers, bus analyzers and digital oscilloscopes.

• Programming experience in C and Python

• Familiarity with Windows, and Linux.

• The ability to drive engineering efforts through all aspects of new product development and system level debug.

• The ability to analyze problems, diagnose root cause, and apply corrective actions.

• 12-15 Year Experience See Less