Principal Systems Engineer

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Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Position Overview
The Principal Systems Engineer is a senior individual contributor who owns system-level architecture and technical direction for complex platforms. This role works across software, AI systems, cloud platforms, and hardware-aware architectures, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and memory-centric systems.
The engineer operates with a high degree of independence, solves highly complex problems, and influences technical direction across multiple teams. This role remains hands-on, while also setting standards and mentoring senior engineers.
Key Responsibilities

• Own and define end-to-end system architecture across frontend, backend, Linux-based systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Design and build full-stack platforms, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and user interfaces
• Architect and integrate AI and agent-based workflows, including orchestration, memory, and data handling
• Apply hardware and memory knowledge to optimize system performance, scalability, and efficiency
• Develop and review Linux system software and device-level components using C and C++, when required
• Lead performance analysis, debugging, and optimization across software and hardware layers
• Build and maintain web-based tools, dashboards, and visualizations to expose system behavior, metrics, and operational insights
• Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and platform teams within the semiconductor ecosystem
• Mentor senior and staff engineers; help define engineering standards and best practices
• Serve as a technical authority, influencing design decisions and architectural direction beyond a single team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 12+ years of experience demonstrating expert-level knowledge in systems engineering, software engineering, or platform development
• Recognized technical authority in one or more areas, with extensive knowledge across multiple technical sub-functions
• Strong hands-on expertise in C, C++, and Linux systems programming, including performance-critical components
• Proven ability to define solutions and lead large, highly complex technical projects with impact beyond a single team
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, full-stack systems
• Deep hands-on experience with data platforms, including SQL and NoSQL databases, for data-intensive workloads
• Experience building web-based tooling, dashboards, or visualization layers that surface system, performance, or operational data
• Ability to work with a high degree of independence, guided by functional objectives rather than detailed instructions
• Strong track record of solving highly complex problems, driving innovation, and defining standards that others follow
• Demonstrated influence across teams through architecture ownership, technical reviews, and mentoring

Preferred Qualifications (Hardware / Memory / Accelerator Focus)

• Strong knowledge of advanced memory technologies, including HBM, LPDDR, and emerging DRAM architectures, and their system-level implications
• Experience working with or around AI accelerators (GPUs, NPUs, or custom silicon), with emphasis on memory bandwidth and data movement
• Understanding of AI/ML inference-centric and memory-intensive workloads
• Experience with data-intensive or datacenter-scale systems
• Familiarity with performance profiling, analysis, and optimization tools across CPU, memory, I/O, and interconnects
• Experience using system-level models, analytical frameworks, or memory simulation tools to guide architectural decisions
• Background in semiconductor companies, hardware-focused organizations, or close collaboration with silicon and firmware teams is strongly preferred

About Micron Technology, Inc.
We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all . With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities - from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.
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