Manager, Security Firmware

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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.

Join Micron's dynamic and innovative engineering organization as a Manager, Security Firmware, where you will lead the delivery of secure firmware and ROM capabilities across Micron's SSD portfolio. In this role, you will manage an experienced security engineering team, set technical direction for security feature execution, and drive secure development practices across multiple platforms. You will own delivery execution, coach and develop engineers, establish metrics-driven processes, and partner closely with security architecture, validation, and infrastructure teams to ensure high-quality, certified security solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a security firmware engineering team delivering ROM and firmware security features across multiple Micron SSD products and platforms, driving technical excellence, accountability, and professional development.

• Own security feature execution and delivery by planning team capacity, prioritizing work across multiple programs, managing cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring timelines, code quality, and security standards are met.

• Drive secure development practices and technical strategy, including Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) activities such as threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability management, and security certification.

• Establish, track, and improve engineering processes using Agile methodologies and issue-tracking metrics (e.g., Jira), leveraging data to identify risks, improve execution, and continuously optimize team performance.

• Partner closely with security architecture, validation, signing infrastructure, and storage platform teams to ensure secure design, testing, certification readiness, and thoughtful adoption of advanced developer tools, including AI-assisted workflows with human validation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• 3+ years of experience managing security engineering teams.

• Understanding of ROM and Firmware development lifecycles and their security-related stages.

• Strong communication and leadership skills to align security engineering priorities across multi-functional teams.

• Expertise in firmware security, hardware security, and embedded systems architecture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Detail-focused leader with a proven ability to use data from issue tracking systems to drive process improvements and establish metrics-based team goals.

• Hands-on technical leadership experience including conducting code reviews, contributing to architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers in secure coding practices.

• Experience working with validation, signing, and infrastructure teams on secure development workflows and certification readiness.

• Knowledge of enterprise storage security standards (OCP, TCG, NVMe, PCIe, IEEE 1667, DMTF SPDM) or experience contributing to industry security standards groups.

The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is:

$169,000.00 - $295,000.00 a year

Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity.

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