Micron Technology

Manager, Security Firmware

Micron Technology$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field (Computer Science, Engineering)
  • 3+ years managing security engineering teams
  • Understanding of ROM and Firmware development with a focus on security
  • Strong communication and leadership skills
  • Expertise in firmware security and embedded systems architecture

Responsibilities

  • Lead a security firmware engineering team to deliver secure ROM and firmware features
  • Own delivery execution of security features, managing timelines and quality standards
  • Drive secure development practices including threat modeling and secure code reviews
  • Establish and improve engineering processes using Agile methodologies
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure design and testing readiness

Benefits

  • Choice of medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Income protection benefits for illness or injury
  • Robust paid time-off program and paid holidays
  • Paid family leave programs
  • Support for personal wellbeing and professional growth
Full Job Description
Join Micron's dynamic and innovative engineering organization as a Manager, Security Firmware, where you will lead the delivery of secure firmware and ROM capabilities across Micron's SSD portfolio. In this role, you will manage an experienced security engineering team, set technical direction for security feature execution, and drive secure development practices across multiple platforms. You will own delivery execution, coach and develop engineers, establish metrics-driven processes, and partner closely with security architecture, validation, and infrastructure teams to ensure high-quality, certified security solutions. Responsibilities: • Lead and manage a security firmware engineering team delivering ROM and firmware security features across multiple Micron SSD products and platforms, driving technical excellence, accountability, and professional development. • Own security feature execution and delivery by planning team capacity, prioritizing work across multiple programs, managing cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring timelines, code quality, and security standards are met. • Drive secure development practices and technical strategy, including Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) activities such as threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability management, and security certification. • Establish, track, and improve engineering processes using Agile methodologies and issue-tracking metrics (e.g., Jira), leveraging data to identify risks, improve execution, and continuously optimize team performance. • Partner closely with security architecture, validation, signing infrastructure, and storage platform teams to ensure secure design, testing, certification readiness, and thoughtful adoption of advanced developer tools, including AI-assisted workflows with human validation. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field. • 3+ years of experience managing security engineering teams. • Understanding of ROM and Firmware development lifecycles and their security-related stages. • Strong communication and leadership skills to align security engineering priorities across multi-functional teams. • Expertise in firmware security, hardware security, and embedded systems architecture. Preferred Qualifications: • Detail-focused leader with a proven ability to use data from issue tracking systems to drive process improvements and establish metrics-based team goals. • Hands-on technical leadership experience including conducting code reviews, contributing to architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers in secure coding practices. • Experience working with validation, signing, and infrastructure teams on secure development workflows and certification readiness. • Knowledge of enterprise storage security standards (OCP, TCG, NVMe, PCIe, IEEE 1667, DMTF SPDM) or experience contributing to industry security standards groups. As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

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43,000 employees
Market Cap
$53.7 billion
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Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1978
5 Year Trend
+8.6%
Revenue
$22 billion
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