Member of Technical Staff - Systems Performance Engineer

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Member of Technical Staff - Systems Performance Engineer

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence is inspiring changes in storage system architectures within data centers. A re-design of storage systems to utilize flash-based media and other advanced non-volatile memory technologies has begun. The Micron Data Center Workload Engineering team is looking for an experienced engineer to help our team characterize the performance endurance and power efficiency of flash-based media for applications and storage systems. If you are a hands-on problem solver who has an aptitude for learning new technologies we want to talk to you. Initiative passion and leadership skills are valued in your day-to-day work.

Micron has long been a leader in DRAM and Flash memory and we are at the forefront of emerging technologies. We are well-positioned to lead the storage revolution that will allow customers to experience the full benefit of these exciting memory technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and test AI solutions that simulate customer environments Specific focus around the characterization of training and inference workloads like DLRM Image Segmentation Large Language Models and Generative AI.

• Collect and analyze storage traces of workloads uncovering and classifying unique IO behavior.

• Devise and implement suitable benchmarking strategies drawing from industry standards and field feedback.

• Automate and expand existing benchmarking capabilities to improve efficiency and repeatability.

• Demonstrate skills at instrumenting and measuring application workload requests analyze storage solution I/O activity down to SSD devices and monitor system resource utilization.

• Analyze system level bottlenecks and solve issues involving virtualization technologies distributed storage architectures and complex application workload environments.

• Interpret findings and results summarizing into standard methodologies white papers and presentations to help SSD engineering understand unique workload requirements.

• Work with multi-functional teams and key industry partners to deliver prescriptive guidance positioning our storage products in premier application environments.

• Contribute to continuous improvement feedback to Micron product development organizations.

• Meet project schedules with a high degree of fidelity.

• Present workload performance data and storage insights at industry trade shows.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS Degree in EE CE CS or equivalent

• Understanding of emerging AI workloads and their impact and requirements on system architecture specifically storage systems.

• Expert understanding of Python and demonstrated ability building automation tools.

• Experience with hypervisors and SDS stacks (one or more): Weka Lustre Ceph Docker Linux Containers VMware Azure Stack.

• Synthetic I/O characterization and related tools FIO Blktrace etc.

• Operating systems and associated internal storage stacks: Linux Microsoft.

• Familiarity with and knowledge of Solid-State Drives and related technologies.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Data Center SSD validation.

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

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