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Principal High-speed Digital Circuit Designer Interface Pathfinding

At Micron, we transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. As a global leader in memory and storage innovation, we develop technologies that accelerate intelligence and enable the next era of AI, ML, and advanced computing.

Micron's Interface Pathfinding team serves as a link between corporate strategy and engineering execution through forward-looking investigation and development of energy-efficient bandwidth solutions that support sustained technology leadership. As such, team members are expected to proactively identify, evaluate, and drive performance-scaling opportunities through innovative circuit, signaling, encoding, packaging, and interconnect solutions with a 3-5 year outlook, and to develop a robust intellectual property portfolio around these efforts. These objectives are achieved within a culture of diligent, continuous learning.

The candidate is encouraged to contribute to Micron's performance scaling strategies through:

• Evaluating and developing novel and literature-inspired high-speed circuit concepts, and preparing promising solutions for future product adoption
• Realizing return on investment through focused handshaking of new concepts with product teams
• Exploring opportunities to fully exploit future CMOS nodes
• Co-developing new Design-for-Test (DFT) and in-situ characterization capabilities
• Deriving and incorporating new circuit analysis techniques to support enhanced performance characterization
• Developing scripts or agents to automate and optimize design tool flows
• Driving circuit preparation to capitalize on test-chip opportunities, including:
• Designing and developing high-speed PHY components including signal paths, calibration, training, control, and test logic
• Converting architectural specification into micro-architecture and implementing RTL using Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Simulating, optimizing, and floor-planning digital circuits for silicon
• Performing formal/functional verification and partnering with pre- and post-silicon teams to debug and resolve issues

The role encourages engagement across multiple fields and organizations including Signal Integrity, Circuit and Chip Build, Packaging R&D, and System Integration.

Qualifications

• MSEE or higher with 10+ years of relevant digital design experience
• Strong RTL design skills using Verilog/SystemVerilog and ability to create detailed circuit specifications
• Proven understanding of timing, area, power, and complexity tradeoffs
• Experience with synthesis, STA, lint, CDC, and formal/functional verification tools
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as c-shell, Python, Perl, or TCL
• Strong interest in applying AI principles to elevate individual and team efficiency
• Experience with end-to-end design flow and demonstrated success taking circuits from conception through layout / tape-out and into high volume production

Successful candidates for this position will be:

• Pro-active Candidate will be expected to identify gaps and opportunities and address them with minimal supervision.
• Visionary Candidate will be expected to think "outside-the-box" and yet offer innovative solutions within a set of practical constraints.
• Communicator Candidate should be able to clearly convey necessary details of complex issues and corresponding solutions in both written and verbal formats.
• Collaborator Candidate should be able to work collaboratively within the larger pathfinding team.

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

$159,000.00 - $347,000.00 a year

Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base pay for new hire salaries of the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional job-related factors, including knowledge, skills, experience, tenure and relevant education or training. The pay scale is subject to change depending on business needs. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.