Micron Technology is looking for a Manager, Security Firmware to lead a highly experienced team developing security firmware solutions for our SSD products. You will drive technical excellence, manage project timelines, and implement secure development workflows.
What You'll Do
- Lead a security engineering team developing firmware and ROM security functionality across multiple SSD products and platforms.
- Conduct one-on-ones, performance evaluations, and coaching to drive technical excellence and team accountability.
- Plan team capacity and prioritize feature work across multi-project environments while managing dependencies.
- Establish and track process metrics using an issue tracking system like Jira; analyze data to drive continuous improvements.
- Drive implementation of the technical strategy for security feature delivery while maintaining code quality, security standards, and timelines.
- Collaborate with security architecture, validation, and signing infrastructure teams to ensure secure development, testing, and certification workflows.
- Implement Agile practices: sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives, and team coordination.
- Guide evaluation and adoption of AI-assisted developer tools for requirements analysis, coding, testing, and code review.
- Champion implementation of Security Development Lifecycle stages: threat modeling, code reviews, vulnerability management, and security certification.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a 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.
Nice to Have
- Detail-focused leader with a proven ability to use data from issue tracking systems to drive process improvements and establish metrics-based goals.
- Hands-on technical leadership experience including conducting code reviews, contributing to architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers in secure coding.
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Jira
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $156,000.00 - $342,000.00 a year + equity
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Income protection for illness or injury
- Paid family leave
- Robust paid time-off program
- Paid holidays
Work Mode
This position is open to candidates located in the US.
Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and 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.
