Sr AI Engineer, Platform - Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.
Help build, operate, and maintain the platforms that power Micron's analytics and AI workloads.
About the role
This individual contributor will serve as a hands-on technical member of the SMAI Platform Engineering team, building, operating, and maintaining the platforms that power Micron's analytics and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with global platform teams, customers, partners, and vendors to deliver effective technical solutions.
- Evaluate and recommend adoption opportunities for the latest platform roadmaps, emerging technologies, and new service offerings.
- Partner with solution architects to design, implement, and optimize solutions across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Document findings, operational procedures, guidelines, and reusable patterns.
- Monitor platform performance, observability, costs, and resource utilization to identify optimization opportunities and improve reliability.
- Implement and maintain security controls, including RBAC and industry-standard frameworks.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, with 2–4 years of Platform Administration and/or Cloud Engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes, including administration, deployment, scaling, monitoring, and resolving challenges in production environments.
- Experience administering public cloud platforms and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning, Data Science, Generative AI, and Agentic AI concepts, including supporting AI/ML platform workloads.
Nice to have
- Strong foundation or administration of Unix.
Skills: platform teams, cloud engineering, IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, AI/ML platform workloads
This role has been open 21 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
976
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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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 (976 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 27 | 976 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 258 | 6119 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 37 d | 51 d (−14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: platform teams, cloud engineering, IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, AI/ML platform workloads
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 18 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 92 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 11 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 976 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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.