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About This Role
Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for *all* .
Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.
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 .
Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 4,317 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At Micron Technology, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $214,900 based on 6,420 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $227,400.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($287,500) and Research Engineer ($272,100). By seniority level: Entry: $110,000; Mid: $194,400; Senior: $227,400; Director: $274,554; VP: $241,000.
Micron Technology AI Hiring
Micron Technology has 8 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, Research Engineer. Positions span Boise, ID, US, San Jose, CA, US, Richardson, TX, US. Compensation range: $192K - $309K.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 15% (635 positions) offer remote work, while 3,657 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,650 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (1,335 roles, $265,000 median); Los Angeles (708 roles, $214,112 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 4,317 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 138 entry-level, 2,071 mid-level, 1,655 senior, and 453 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (635 positions). The remaining 3,657 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($287,500 median, 34 roles); Research Engineer ($272,100 median, 227 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($244,000 median, 23 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 4,317 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (3,004), Data Scientist (345), AI Software Engineer (309). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (138) are outnumbered by mid-level (2,071) and senior (1,655) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 453 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (635 positions), with 3,657 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $215,000. Top-quartile roles start at $266,300, and the 90th percentile reaches $320,790. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $287,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (2,249 postings), Aws (1,224 postings), Azure (938 postings), Rag (915 postings), Gcp (660 postings), Pytorch (640 postings), Prompt Engineering (624 postings), Kubernetes (559 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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