SMTS, Systems Infrastructure Engineering - San Jose, CA, United States
$211,000 - $368,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves owning the day-to-day operations and infrastructure of lab systems, including platforms, test equipment, and reference platforms used by the DASG Architecture Lab and Customer Enablement Lab teams.
What you'll do
- Own the day-to-day bring-up, readiness, maintenance, and operational support of lab systems, racks, benches, test equipment, and reference platforms.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain server, GPU, FPGA, client AI, mobile AI, analyzer, and environmental test equipment.
- Build and maintain stable, reproducible validation environments, including BIOS, BMC, firmware, operating systems, drivers, networking, remote access, and power and thermal configurations.
- Create automation solutions using Python, shell scripting, or similar technologies to improve lab setup, health monitoring, regression execution, result collection, and reporting.
- Diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues across hardware, firmware, software, networking, power, thermal, and equipment-control domains.
- Support customer and partner enablement activities through system preparation, configuration optimization, debug support, and performance characterization.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in server architecture, system-level validation, platform bring-up, hardware/software debug, or engineering lab infrastructure operations.
- Demonstrated ability configuring and maintaining validation platforms, test equipment, protocol analyzers, power analyzers, oscilloscopes, environmental chambers, or similar laboratory assets.
- Proven experience developing automation solutions using Python, Shell, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience with BIOS, BMC, firmware, operating systems, device drivers, networking, storage, power delivery, and thermal management concepts in lab environments.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience working with DRAM, LPDDR, HBM, CXL, memory subsystem architecture, or memory validation workflows.
- 2+ years of experience supporting AI, machine learning, HPC workloads, GPU platforms, or performance characterization activities.
- Experience with CUDA, ROCm, DRAMSim3, Ramulator2, trace capture/replay methodologies, or related modeling and analysis tools.
- Experience supporting FPGA platforms, hardware prototyping environments, protocol debugging, multi-site laboratory operations, or equipment lifecycle management.
Skills: lab systems, platform bring-up, BIOS, BMC, firmware, operating systems, device drivers
This role has been open 47 days — well below the 61-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
689
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$217k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (689 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 689 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 256 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 23 d | 61 d (−38 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $217k |
Skills observed across this category: lab systems, platform bring-up, BIOS, BMC, firmware, operating systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 166 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA · 137 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 64 open roles · median 50 d
- Mobileye · 28 open roles · median 74 d
- Broadcom · 21 open roles · median 51 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 112 d
How we counted: 689 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 72 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.