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 Description Join Micron's Data Center Workload Engineering team and help transform information into intelligence. As a Senior Systems Performance Engineer, you will identify and improve the performance of our memory and storage products in data center systems. This role gives you the chance to work with innovative technology, understand performance limits, and implement improvements successfully. You will collaborate closely with SSD architects, product engineers, and customer teams in this hands-on, individual-contributor position. Responsibilities: • Conduct repeatable studies of AI, database, virtualization, or distributed-storage workloads on production-class systems. • Plan tests with clear hypotheses, realistic configurations, and appropriate controls. • Trace application I/O through the system to the SSD, measuring efficiency, completion time, scaling, tail latency, consistency, and power. • Identify bottlenecks and test SSD features, system architectures, and competing solutions. Provide data-backed recommendations for improvements. • Develop test automation and analysis tools, including AI-assisted workflows. Share findings through engineering reports, presentations, and customer-facing technical material. Minimum Qualifications: • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field is required, along with more than 3 years of experience. Alternatively, a master’s degree with over 1 year of experience is acceptable. • Experience in systems performance, application benchmarking, or workload characterization. • Hands-on experience deploying and debugging applications on Linux. • Working understanding of the storage I/O path, including Linux I/O, file systems, block storage, NVMe, and PCIe. • Proficiency with performance-analysis tools and Python or a similar language for problem investigation, test automation, and result explanation. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience testing AI infrastructure, databases, virtualization, high-performance computing, or distributed storage. • Knowledge of GPU-accelerated systems or AI frameworks. • Familiarity with software-defined or object storage solutions such as WEKA, Ceph, Cloudian, or MinIO. • Experience measuring power, efficiency, quality of service, or SSD behavior under application load. • Proven ability to build reusable analysis tools or present technical findings to wider audiences. • Working knowledge of AI-enabled productivity, automation, and analytics tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude CoWork, GitHub Copilot, Power Automate, Etc. The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is: $116,000.00 - $198,000.00 a year Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity. 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