Principal Customer Validation Engineer

Micron Technology • Longmont, CO

3d • $145,000 - $247,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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. This role serves as the technical authority and lead for customer validation, responsible for the end-to-end customer validation approach, execution oversight, and multi-functional alignment across major customers, platforms, and product lines. The position operates with broad autonomy and drives high-impact decisions that influence customer confidence, qualification success, and business outcomes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in customer, system, or product validation engineering.
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing validation programs with significant technical impact.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering domains.
• Deep expertise in enterprise SSD systems, storage behavior, and system-level interactions.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to assess and manage technical risk under ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• Experience influencing validation strategy and driving quality improvements at scale.
• Comfort serving as final technical authority for validation scope and outcomes.
• Proven ability to coordinate multi-functional teams including firmware, hardware, and systems engineering.
• Strong customer-facing interpersonal skills for technical briefings and resolving critical issues.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Customer Validation Lead (CVL) for strategic customers, hyperscalers, or OEMs.
• Define and own customer validation strategy, test depth, acceptance criteria, and risk mitigation.
• Lead qualification planning, execution readiness reviews, and customer closure decisions.
• Drive alignment between customer requirements and internal validation, firmware, and system teams.
• Provide technical leadership for complex, multi-domain validation and debug challenges.

Benefits

• Choice of medical, dental and vision plans
• Benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Paid family leave
• Robust paid time-off program
• Paid holidays

What This Job Offers

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