Principal Firmware Developer, HBM
Micron Technology2 days ago
Base Salary
$181k - $308k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze firmware, design, architecture, and customer requirements and create implementation plans.
- Develop firmware for next-generation SoC designs, including driver layers, design verification firmware, manufacturing and test firmware, and production firmware.
- Use FPGA prototyping to develop and validate firmware.
- Collaborate with architecture, design, verification, hardware, and firmware teams to co-optimize firmware, RTL, hardware features, and IP selections.
- Provide technical leadership from concept and architectural pathfinding through silicon bring-up, qualification, customer enablement, and product sustainment.
- Lead technical discussions with internal and external collaborators to clarify requirements and features.
- Apply GenAI to develop AI-assisted development workflows.
Requirements
- BSEE or greater is required.
- 10+ years of relevant engineering or design engineering experience are required.
- Strong embedded systems or firmware development experience, including low-level programming and system control.
- Ability to architect complex firmware systems, interfaces, and system-level enablement features for GPUs, CPUs, or TPUs in large-scale AI datacenter environments.
- Background in memory technologies such as DRAM, HBM, NAND, or related subsystem architectures.
- Hands-on experience with low-level firmware, hardware bring-up, and silicon debug workflows.
- Exposure to RAS, diagnostics, telemetry, testing, or reliability-focused firmware.
- Familiarity with high-speed interfaces and protocols, memory controllers, PHY interaction, or SoC-level firmware integration.
- Experience working in multifunctional silicon development teams across hardware, firmware, and architecture groups.
- Understanding of DRAM operation and JEDEC standards, preferably HBM, and exposure to AI/ML workloads or datacenter-scale memory systems.
- Strong communication skills and proficiency applying AI and AI-enabled development workflows.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans are available in all locations.
- Income-protection programs, paid family leave, paid time off, and paid holidays are provided.
- The position is full-time and based in the US; the job title and level may scale depending on experience and qualifications.
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About Micron Technology
Micron Technology designs and manufactures memory and storage semiconductors—DRAM, NAND, NOR and SSDs—sold to device makers, cloud providers, and embedded/automotive markets. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Boise, Idaho, it operates globally and sells under the Micron and Crucial brands as a public company (NASDAQ: MU). Its products support data center, AI, mobile, and PC systems, including high-bandwidth and multichip packages for performance- and space-constrained applications.