{"id":3965161,"url":"https://alion.io/job/micron-technology-design-dft-director-nve-engineering","title":"Design / DFT Director (NVE Engineering)","company":{"id":37,"name":"Micron Technology","domain":"micron.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/micron-technology","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":679,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.49,"repost_share":0.007,"time_to_fill_p50_days":49,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Avezzano, Italy"],"countries":["IT"],"hiring_countries":["IT"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":105000,"max":183000,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":203935},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T13:42:40Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T13:42:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life forall.\nMicron 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.\nDepartment Introduction\nThe Non-Volatile NAND Design Engineering organization is responsible for the architecture, design, integration, and optimization of analog, digital, mixed-signal, and test solutions enabling advanced NAND Flash memory products. Close collaboration across global design, technology, product, test, and manufacturing teams ensures scalable, manufacturable, reliable, and cost-effective products across technology generations.\nPosition Overview\nWe are seeking an expert and innovative Director of NAND Design for Test (DFT) to lead the global DFT strategy, architecture, and execution for advanced NAND Flash products at Micron Semiconductor Italia.\nIn this senior leadership role, you will define the DFT vision and technical roadmap, owning architecture, methodology, integration, verification, coverage closure, and build sign-off from early product definition through silicon initialization, validation, and mass production.\nYou will combine deep semiconductor and DFT expertise with strong interpersonal and people leadership, partnering with Design, Product Engineering, Test, Probe, Quality, Failure Analysis, Technology Development, and Manufacturing to improve product quality, yield, cost, test time, reliability, and time to market.\nAI, machine learning, and data analytics are a core pillar of this role. You will lead adoption across the DFT organization and transform the delivery of testability, diagnostics, and silicon learning at scale. You will build and scale a high-performing distributed and international group.\nResponsibilities\nResponsibilities include, but are not limited to:\nDefine and lead the global NAND DFT vision, strategy, and technical roadmap across product programs and technology generations; anticipate future requirements and establish scalable architectures, methodologies, technical priorities, success metrics, and governance aligned with quality, cost, performance, and schedule objectives.\nOwn DFT architecture, methodology, integration, verification, coverage closure, and design sign-off from early product definition through tape-out; lead scalable testability, diagnostic, design-for-debug, and embedded test solutions across digital logic and custom circuits, ensuring predictable delivery and clear coverage, test-time, area, power, quality, and execution targets.\nPartner with Design and Project teams to embed testability early and resolve performance, power, area, reliability, cost, and schedule trade-offs; work with Product Engineering, Test, Probe, Failure Analysis, Quality, Technology Development, and Manufacturing through silicon bring-up, qualification, and high-volume production to achieve quality, coverage, yield, reliability, test-time, cost, and time-to-market objectives.\nDrive reusable methodologies, automation, and DFT and design-for-debug innovation; strengthen simulation-to-silicon correlation, diagnostics, and root-cause resolution, with measurable improvements in debug efficiency, silicon learning, test quality, test time, yield learning, product cost, and time to market.\nBuild, develop, and inspire a high-performing global DFT organization; develop managers and senior technical leaders through mentoring, talent development, performance management, succession planning, and career growth. Allocate priorities and resources across complex programs, communicate strategy, plans, decisions, risks, and results to senior partners, and sustain technical depth, AI and data skills, leadership capability, engagement, and retention within an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture.\nAI Enablement and Productivity\nAI, machine learning, and data analytics are a core leadership responsibility, not an optional productivity tool. The Director will define and lead the AI/ML strategy for DFT and scale adoption across the global organization, with measurable engineering and product outcomes:\nDeploy data-driven and AI-assisted solutions for test-pattern and test-flow optimization, fail diagnosis and root-cause analysis, yield prediction, coverage analytics, and test-time reduction.\nEstablish reusable AI-enabled DFT, diagnostic, and analytics workflows; measure gains in debug time, test time, yield learning, engineering productivity, quality, and execution speed.\nBuild AI and data-analytics capabilities across the team and partner across functions to evaluate, adopt, and scale emerging tools and methodologies supporting future NAND technology generations.\nMinimum Qualifications\nM.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.\nSignificant experience in semiconductor design, DFT, product test, or silicon validation, including leadership of sophisticated engineering programs and teams. Demonstrated success defining strategy and delivsophisticatedomplex products from concept through tape-out, silicon validation, and large-scale manufacturing.\nDeep knowledge of NAND design, verification, DFT principles, test architecture, coverage analysis, silicon debug, and semiconductor manufacturing flows.\nProven people leadership, including organization building, talent development, performance management, and leading through other managers or senior technical leaders. Strong multi-functional influence, executive communication, technical decision-making, and program execution skills in a global environment.\nSolid understanding of AI/ML and data-analytics techniques and their practical application to semiconductor design, test, or manufacturing. Proficiency with engineering automation; working knowledge of scripting or programming languages such as Python and C/C++.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with NAND Flash or other non-volatile memory technologies and their design, test, reliability, and manufacturing challenges.\nExperience with memory test algorithms, embedded self-test/diagnostics, custom-circuit DFT, firmware-to-hardware test interfaces, and production test optimization.\nHands-on experience deploying AI, machine learning, or sophisticated analytics in production environments for design verification, coverage, silicon debug, yield, or test optimization.\nTrack record of improving test quality, yield learning, test time, product cost, or time to market through methodology and interpersonal innovation.\nExperience leading geographically distributed teams and collaborating with external EDA, IP, equipment, or technology partners.\nThe base salary range that Micron estimates it could pay in for this position full-time is:\n105.000,00 € - 183.000,00 € per year, with A1-D CCNL Level.Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base pay for new hire salaries of the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional job-related factors, including knowledge, skills, experience, tenure and relevant education or training. The pay scale is subject to change depending on business needs. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the position.\nIn addition to base pay, the remuneration package also includes: eligibility for a variable plan subject to the personal achievement of objectives and the company's performance, and benefits, which -at the discretion of the company- currently include meal vouchers, corporate welfare, yearly allowance of remote working days, supplementary health insurance, life coverage, Employee Assistance Program. Please refer to this page to check our current benefit offering: EMEA Benefits\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.\nRemuneration is determined by objective criteria, regardless of gender and of any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.\nTo request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact .\nBefore uploading your CV to apply for this position, please review our Applicant Privacy Notice and Employment Privacy Notice. 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Your CV will be forwarded to the appropriate recruiter for review.\nMicron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.\nMicron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.\nAI alert: Candidates are encouraged to use AI tools to enhance their resume and/or application materials. However, all information provided must be accurate and reflect the candidate's true skills and experiences. Misuse of AI to fabricate or misrepresent qualifications will result in immediate disqualification.\nFraud alert: Micron advises job seekers to be cautious of unsolicited job offers and to verify the authenticity of any communication claiming to be from Micron by checking the official Micron careers website in the About Micron Technology, Inc.\nAbout Micron Technology, Inc.\nWe are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® brand. 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