Manager, Security Firmware

Micron Technology • Longmont, CO

21d • $156,000 - $342,000

About The Position

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.
Join Micron's dynamic and innovative engineering team where your contributions will make a tangible impact on the future of data storage technology. As a Manager, Security Firmware, you will lead a highly experienced team dedicated to developing world-class security firmware solutions for our SSD products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience managing security engineering teams.
• Understanding of ROM and Firmware development lifecycles and their security-related stages.
• Strong communication and leadership skills to align security engineering priorities across multi-functional teams.
• Expertise in firmware security, hardware security, and embedded systems architecture.

Nice To Haves

• Detail-focused leader with a proven ability to use data from issue tracking systems to drive process improvements and establish metrics-based team goals.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience including conducting code reviews, contributing to architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers in secure coding practices.
• Experience working with validation, signing, and infrastructure teams on secure development workflows and certification readiness.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage security standards (OCP, TCG, NVMe, PCIe, IEEE 1667, DMTF SPDM) or experience contributing to industry security standards groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead a security engineering team developing firmware and Read-Only Memory (ROM) security functionality across multiple Micron Solid State Drive (SSD) products and platforms.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance evaluations, and coaching to drive technical excellence and team accountability.
• Plan team capacity and prioritize feature work across multi-project environments while managing multi-functional dependencies.
• Establish and track process metrics using an issue tracking system (Jira); analyze data to identify and drive continuous improvements.
• Drive implementation of the technical strategy for security feature delivery while maintaining code quality, security standards, and project timelines.
• Collaborate with security architecture, validation and signing infrastructure teams to ensure secure development, testing, and certification workflows.
• Implement Agile practices: sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives, and team coordination.
• Guide evaluation and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted developer tools for requirements analysis, coding, testing, and code review (with human validation).
• Champion implementation of Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) stages: threat modeling, code reviews, vulnerability management, and security certification.

Benefits

• Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future.
• We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget.
• Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave.
• Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays.
• For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager