About this role
Summary: Provides visionary technical leadership and drives breakthrough AI innovations for Micron's ITP division. Shapes the AI technology roadmap, leads research in GenAI and ML, and guides the application of AI across semiconductor design and engineering operations to accelerate product development and business outcomes.
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 Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) for ITP (Innovation, Technology and Products) AI is one of the company's critical distinguished technical leadership positions — responsible for shaping the future of our ITP AI strategy, architecture, and solutions to accelerate technology innovation, silicon design, product development, and engineering execution across ITP. This role is central to Micron's mission to make AI foundational to transform and reinvent innovation, technology and product development workflows, amplifying its people, and unlocking durable competitive advantage.
Position Summary
The ITP AI DMTS serves as a recognized technical architect in Artificial Intelligence, providing visionary leadership and driving breakthrough innovations that create sustainable competitive advantage for Micron. This individual will shape the long-term AI technology roadmap for ITP, lead pioneering research and development efforts, and guide the application of AI across semiconductor technology, product development, engineering systems, and enterprise operations — directly advancing ITP's vision to redesign engineering from specification to qualification, enabling more design IDs, faster execution, and first-pass qualification with best-in-class quality.
As a DMTS, the individual will operate across organizational boundaries, influencing executive leaders, engineers, and product teams to accelerate AI adoption and deliver transformational business outcomes, including ITP's broader goal of significantly faster time-to-market. You will drive disciplined execution against objectives set each quarter, translating the ITP AI roadmap into measurable, quarter-over-quarter results, while identifying emerging technologies, establishing technical direction, mentoring future AI leaders, and representing Micron externally as a recognized thought leader in AI.
Key Responsibilities
AI Vision and Strategy
- Shape and help drive the long-term AI vision and AI technology roadmap for ITP.
- Identify disruptive AI technologies, research advancements, and industry trends that can create differentiated value for Micron’s engineering teams.
- Advise executive ITP leadership on AI strategy, investments, technology risks, and emerging opportunities.
- Influence company-wide decisions regarding ITP AI architecture, platforms, governance, and innovation priorities.
Technical Innovation and Research Leadership
- Lead breakthrough AI research initiatives spanning GenAI, agentic AI, machine learning, scientific AI, semiconductor-focused AI, and advanced reasoning systems.
- Deliver outcomes working alongside larger teams, towards meeting the AI roadmap for ITP
- Champion the application of AI to engineering productivity, semiconductor design, product development, manufacturing, and business operations.
- Guide high-impact AI initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in velocity, quality, cost, and business outcomes.
- Partner across ITP organizations to align AI investments with strategic objectives.
- Influence technical standards, best practices, and AI platform adoption across the enterprise.
- Deliver outcomes on key projects working alongside cross-functional teams
Technical Leadership and Influence
- Drive disciplined execution against objectives set each quarter, translating the ITP AI roadmap into measurable, quarter-over-quarter results.
- Serve as the highest-level technical advisor to AI leaders and executives in our engineering organizations.
- Lead cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges requiring exceptional expertise and creativity.
- Mentor senior technical staff, principal engineers, architects, and engineers
- Build and strengthen Micron's AI technical community and talent pipeline.
Minimum Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field.
- 15+ years of experience in advanced AI research, AI platform development, machine learning, semiconductor or related technical domains.
- Demonstrated record of industry-leading technical innovation and impact.
- Deep expertise in multiple AI disciplines, such as Generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, deep learning, LLMs, AI infrastructure, scientific AI, reinforcement learning, and AI safety and governance.
- Significant experience leading large-scale, complex technical initiatives.
- Exceptional communication and executive influencing skills.
- Proven ability to drive technical outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in AI with a good record of publications, patents, open-source contributions, or industry recognition.
- Experience applying AI within semiconductor technology, EDA, manufacturing, product development, scientific computing, or high-performance computing environments.
- Demonstrated success creating and scaling enterprise AI platforms and capabilities.
- Experience leading AI transformation efforts within global organizations.
- History of mentoring senior technical talent and developing future technical leaders.
- Distinguished engineer experience, or equivalent technical leadership accomplishments.
The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is:
$255,000.00 - $447,000.00 a year
Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity.
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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](https://www.micron.com/careers/benefits).
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