Micron Technology

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Micron Technology$145K — $175K *
Boise, ID 83709In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field with 8+ years (5+ years for PhD) in end-to-end ML system development.
  • Strong experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and techniques such as regression and deep learning.
  • Proficient in Python or Java, with experience in developing APIs using Kafka or similar systems.
  • Skilled in data engineering, including ETL/ELT pipelines and SQL.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and DevOps tools (e.g., GCP, AWS, Docker).
  • Proven technical leadership experience in delivering ML projects and mentoring teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build ML models to tackle business challenges and enhance products.
  • Analyze large datasets to identify insights that improve machine learning performance.
  • Integrate emerging AI/ML techniques into existing workflows.
  • Create and maintain scalable data pipelines for model training and deployment.
  • Collaborate on data preprocessing to enhance model input quality.
  • Optimize data architectures on cloud platforms for AI/ML applications.
  • Deploy and monitor machine learning models, ensuring performance efficiency.

Benefits

  • Choice of medical, dental, and vision plans tailored to family needs.
  • Income protection programs for illness or injury-related work absence.
  • Paid family leave as part of wellness support.
  • Robust paid time-off program and paid holidays to promote work-life balance.
  • Emphasis on personal wellbeing and professional growth.
Full Job Description
The Smart Manufacturing and AI team at Micron Technology is looking for an ambitious Machine Learning Engineer. Are you curious, high velocity, and ready to solve complex problems? Do you dream in data science and machine learning models? If so, we want you to join us!

Our mission is to enable to deliver industry-winning machine learning solutions to power Micron's dominance in the highly competitive memory solutions market! As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, will have experience in a variety of data and cloud technologies and have extensive practice modeling data, querying, and deploying scalable pipelines to execute machine learning models.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and expert users to build and deploy scalable AI/ML solutions that drive value and insight from Micron's manufacturing processes and systems.

Responsibilities:
  • Design, build, and continuously refine ML models to address business challenges and enhance product capabilities.
  • Analyze large datasets to uncover patterns, trends, and insights that inform and improve machine learning models.
  • Stay ahead of advancements in AI/ML and integrate emerging techniques into the MLOps lifecycle.
  • Build and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support model training and deployment.
  • Collaborate on data preprocessing and feature engineering to improve input data quality and model performance.
  • Design and optimize data architectures across cloud platforms (Snowflake, GCP, Azure) for AI/ML use cases.
  • Develop custom applications and implement CI/CD pipelines to support efficient ML solution deployment.
  • Deploy, evaluate, and monitor models in production, balancing performance with cost efficiency and enabling continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define and implement Generative AI integration strategies and roadmaps.
  • Communicate insights and collaborate multi-functionally, translating complex analytics into actionable recommendations for diverse collaborators.
  • Drive the technical vision and lead end-to-end execution of complex, multi-functional AI/ML projects.
  • Mentor and coach developing and senior team members, elevating the overall technical competence of the engineering team.
  • Embrace and champion AI-assisted software development such as Opencode, Copilot; while strictly managing and auditing AI agents to ensure production quality code that is reliable, secure and high quality.


Minimum Qualifications:
  • Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, or a field closely related to AI and Machine Learning with 8+ years (or PhD with 5+ years) experience building end-to-end ML systems on cloud platforms, automating model training, testing, and deployment.
  • Strong experience with ML frameworks (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) and core techniques including regression, classification, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative AI.
  • Proficient in Python or Java, with experience developing APIs and event-driven pipelines using Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar messaging systems.
  • Skilled in scalable data engineering, including ETL/ELT pipelines (Kubeflow, Airflow, Dataflow), SQL, and data architecture design.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps tools (GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes), combined with strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Proven track record of technical leadership, including leading ML project delivery and mentoring engineering teams.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with solid grounding in probability and statistics.
  • Proven ability to productionize data science prototypes into scalable, real-world solutions.
  • Advanced experience using and managing GenAI coding assistants, with a strong ability to peer-review and rigorously test AI-generated code logic.
  • Hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions and intelligent agents (ADK, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, DsPy, Semantic Kernel).
  • Expertise in semantic search and retrieval systems, including RAG, GraphRAG, NLP, prompt engineering, and LLM fine-tuning/evaluation.
  • Experience with end-to-end data and engineering workflows: ETL pipelines, big data processing, databases (BigQuery, Snowflake, MSSQL, PostgreSQL), and CI/CD tools (Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins) and MLOps/CE platforms (MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, TFX)


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.

To learn more about Micron, please visit micron.com/careers

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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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