Principal Engineer, Customer Validation - Longmont-MAX- Office, CO, United States
$145,000 - $247,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
Own execution, debugging, qualification, and multi-functional coordination for enterprise and data-center SSDs.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer, Customer Validation, you will be a hands-on technical contributor responsible for customer-focused system validation of enterprise and data-center SSDs. This role involves owning execution, debugging, qualification, and multi-functional coordination.
What you'll do
- Plan and implement customer-specific system and SSD validation cycles, including regressions and qualification runs.
- Set up and maintain validation environments and analyze test results to drive root-cause resolution.
- Perform system-level and drive-level debugging and reproduce customer-reported issues.
- Develop and enhance validation test cases, scripts, and automation frameworks.
- Own the process of conducting validation for assigned programs while mentoring developing engineers and contributing to test strategy.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of experience in customer, product, or system validation roles.
- Strong knowledge and experience with NVMe and PCIe protocols and debugging skills across system, firmware, and hardware domains.
- Hands-on experience accomplishing system-level validation in complex hardware/software environments.
- Experience collaborating with multi-functional engineering teams (firmware, hardware, systems).
- Proficiency with scripting/programming in Python, C/C++, or similar languages and understanding of validation methodologies.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting OEM, hyperscale, or cloud customer qualification programs.
- Prior ownership of validation execution for customer-facing platforms.
- Mentoring experience or technical leadership in validation teams.
- Familiarity with industry certifications, compatibility testing, or joint qualification processes.
Skills: SSD validation, system-level debugging, NVMe, PCIe protocols, automation frameworks, customer qualification
This role has been open 50 days — slightly above the 43-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
410
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Median days open
43 d
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Median salary
$172k
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| Metric | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (410 roles · 61 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 410 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 202 | 2219 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 43 d (−3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $172k |
Skills observed across this category: SSD validation, system-level debugging, NVMe, PCIe protocols, automation frameworks, customer qualification
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 44 d
- Micron Technology (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 40 d
- Qualcomm · 36 open roles · median 29 d
- NVIDIA · 26 open roles · median 24 d
- Microchip Technology · 22 open roles · median 69 d
- Graphcore · 20 open roles · median 122 d
How we counted: 410 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 61 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.