Master Technical Staff Systems Engineer

Job overview

The Master Technical Staff Systems Engineer role is onsite in San Jose, CA. The stated base salary range is $215,000–$376,000 per year, with additional compensation potentially including benefits, bonuses, and equity. The role supports Micron’s DRAM Systems Engineering team in developing and evaluating memory systems for AI accelerators. The engineer studies AI inference workloads and memory behavior, then builds and evaluates memory hierarchies and system-level approaches to data movement. This work helps assess and optimize memory systems for agentic AI inference and related workloads.

What you'll do

• Characterize AI inference workloads and memory behavior
• build and evaluate tiered memory hierarchies for AI accelerators
• study KV cache lifecycles, MoE models, and data placement
• compare explicit and hardware-assisted data movement
• develop, test, and debug system-level and OS components
• prototype and evaluate agentic AI systems and multi-agent workflows.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

systems engineer

dram systems

ai inference

memory systems

ai accelerators

operating systems

c++

python

linux

san jose ca

micron

$215k–$376k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options
• income-protection programs
• paid family leave
• paid time off and holidays.

Why this role

Combines memory-system research, operating systems, performance analysis, and agentic AI workload prototyping.

About the employer

Micron Technology, Inc. is hiring for this role. Industry: Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing. Sector: 33.