PrincipalCustomerValidationEngineer

**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. ## Job Summary Technical authority and lead for customer validation responsible for end-to-end customer validation approach, execution oversight, and multi-functional alignment across major customers, platforms, and product lines. Operates with broad autonomy and drives high-impact decisions that influence customer confidence, qualification success, and business outcomes. ## 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. ## Minimum Qualifications: • 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. ## Preferred Qualifications: • 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 in