Principal Applications Engineer

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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 is seeking a Principal Product Applications Engineer to team with Field Application Engineers (FAE) to provide world class customer field-team support for qualification of Micron’s portfolio of Cloud and Data Center Solid State Drives (SSD.

You will be the product technical expert for our cloud/data center SSD portfolio and a primary contact for the Micron customer field team for product related support.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Build a collaborative relationship with the customer field team to ensure customer qualification success
• Debug customer issues working with the customer field team to accelerate new product qualifications
• Provide internal status on customer qualification issues
• Product expert for features and functionality providing app notes and errata lists
• Maintain external product firmware portal and change lists for customer teams
• Pareto analysis of product issues to drive improvements in future products

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of experience debugging hardware issues

• Team player, ambitious and self-starter
• Good presentation skills and effective collaboration with team members
• Desire to perform hands on debug in the lab to address customer issues
• Proficiency using Linux and Windows operating systems
• Experience with setting up and configuring computer hardware and software
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence for bug tracking and documentation
• Experience debugging hardware and firmware issues at a system and SSD drive level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Desire to work with groundbreaking next generation SSD technologies
• 5 years of experience with SSD technology

The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is:

Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity.
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