Director, ITP AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
Originally posted 11 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Micron’s Innovation, Technology & Products (ITP) organization seeks a Director of AI Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team that deploys and maintains AI agents, custom models, and AI-enhanced engineering workflows directly within memory and storage product teams. The position oversees production reliability, scalability, optimization, telemetry, and observability across the ITP AI stack, including applications, agents, models, data, and infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Direct forward deployed delivery across engineering departments to deploy production-ready AI agents, agentic workflows, data science models, small language models (SLMs), and AI-powered CAD workflows.
- Advance AI solutions from pathfinding and pilots into production, delivering repeatable deployment instructions, reference architectures, runbooks, monitoring, security, and scalability standards.
- Own production operations and reliability for deployed AI solutions by setting SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident management, root-cause analysis, and change, release, and rollback mechanisms.
- Provide leadership during production incidents to restore services rapidly, eliminate single points of failure, mitigate capacity risks, and remove operational toil through automation.
- Drive telemetry, observability, and cost and performance optimization across the AI stack using logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and system health scorecards.
- Lead and recruit the Forward Deployed Engineering organization, managing forward deployed engineers, SRE/operations engineers, and AI/ML engineers while balancing resources, priorities, and budget against business impact.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- 15 years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML, data science, or engineering solutions, with more than 7 years managing engineering teams.
- Experience owning production operations for enterprise-critical systems, including on-call operations, incident management, observability, root-cause analysis, service-level objectives, and production reliability.
- Demonstrated experience deploying AI/ML, generative AI, or related AI-enabled solutions into production and driving adoption across engineering or product teams.
- Technical leadership spanning AI/ML engineering, production software and infrastructure, data systems, automation, and operational reliability.
Nice to have
- PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related technical area.
- Experience in semiconductor, memory, storage, or related product development environments, with knowledge of complex engineering, building, verification, and CAD workflows.
- Experience building and leading forward deployed, customer-embedded, SRE, production engineering, or AI/ML technical groups.
- Background in AI agents and autonomous workflows, generative AI, machine learning models, compact language models, AI-assisted engineering processes, production AI monitoring, and model performance.
Skills: AI/ML, Forward Deployed Engineering, CAD Workflows, Generative AI, Production Reliability
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 20-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · AI EDA Design
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Open roles in category
106
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Median days since first seen
20 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$214k
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| Metric | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (106 roles · 30 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 106 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 73 | 1615 · 117 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 2 d | 20 d (+18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $214k |
Skills observed across this category: AI/ML, Forward Deployed Engineering, CAD Workflows, Generative AI, Production Reliability
Who's hiring in this category
- Keysight Technologies · 13 open roles · median 19 d
- NVIDIA · 13 open roles · median 42 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 10 open roles · median 100 d
- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 6 d
- Synopsys · 7 open roles · median 20 d
- AMD · 6 open roles · median 20 d
How we counted: 106 open EDA/CAD Engineering (AI EDA Design) roles from 30 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.