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Embedded Systems Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under USCIS guidelines, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related field. Defense contractors, automotive OEMs, semiconductor firms, and medical device manufacturers are among the most active H-1B visa sponsors in this discipline.
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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.
Embedded Software Design Engineer Lead
Our equipment software team is looking to hire a driven, motivated, embedded software lead engineer! This lead will supervise a team of system and embedded software engineers developing software on bare metal, embedded Linux as well as higher level interface software. You will work with other software engineers and other engineering subject areas to develop custom semiconductor testers from the ground up. We work in a challenging, goal-focused, multi-disciplined develop engineering environment. We develop and support software for a variety of equipment built by our design team. Be a part of our team!
What’s Encouraged Daily:
Your daily work on our equipment software team would involve:
- Providing technical and soft skills mentoring to team members.
- Providing performance coaching and performance goal follow-ups with team members.
- Performing administrative tasks for team members.
- Embedded software development (bare metal, Linux development), hands-on hardware debug, providing feedback to schematic design, reviewing PCB layouts, prototyping circuits, debugging analog and digital hardware, testing, and documenting.
- System software development for back-end command and control framework, employing IOT protocols, collaborating with third party control devices, automating testing, and documenting.
- Coding primarily in C++, and Python under Linux for various microcontrollers and computing modules acting as the interface to in-house designed hardware. Other languages are used as needed.
- Working in cross-discipline design teams involving software, electrical, controls, and mechanical engineers.
- Collaborating globally with other team members.
- Crafting design and manufacturing documentation.
Hiring Group
Our distributed team, the Micron Systems Integration Group (SIG), designs and manufactures internal test equipment for Micron. We are continually being challenged with a wide range of software and hardware design projects that are essential to keep Micron at the forefront of the global memory market. We must be more agile, robust, efficient, and capable than our competitors.
Primary responsibilities
- 50/50 people leader and technical contributor role
- Supervise 4-6 team members, providing mentorship and performance management
- Help the team meet design commitments
- Work closely with software, electrical, mechanical, and control engineers in the design, development, and support of next-generation memory testers
- Develop/Debug in C++ and Python
- Use of lab equipment for design bring-up, debug, and testing
- Communication – written, spoken, creating technical documents in English
- As vital attend occasional off-hour collaboration meetings with portions of the distributed team
Minimum Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
- 5+ years of technical experience in a similar design role with 2 plus years of supervisory role.
- Software
- Proficiency in C++ (low-level and OO concepts)
- Familiarity with Linux and GNU tool chain
- Familiar with advanced OS concepts
- Familiar with concurrency concepts
- Inter-process communication experience
- Network configuration and debug experience
- Hardware
- Desire to work in a hands-on lab environment, curiosity of how things function
- Familiarity with schematics, and PCB layout
- Experience with lab equipment - power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, SMUs
- Knowledge of intermediate electrical engineering concepts
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years supervisory experience
- Project leadership experience
- Experience with using containers in development and deployment
- Experience with traceable calibration standards
- Software build tool familiarity
- System design experience (HW/SW)
- Familiarity with PLM software
- Experience and/or interest in developing Agentic AI workflows into current or future processes.
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.
Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is 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.
To learn more about Micron, please visit micron.com/careers
For US Sites Only: To request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact Micron’s People Organization at hrsupport_na@micron.com or 1-800-336-8918 (select option #3)
Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.
Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.
AI 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.
Fraud 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.
Micron Foundation
Strong communities and education are vital to the success of both society and innovative companies. Every Micron site understands the complex needs of their local community. Whether it’s through strategic giving, sponsorships or deploying team member volunteers, we are making a difference.
Sustainability
Micron is committed to sustainable practices and supporting our global community. We are building and maintaining sustainable operations, products, and communities while focusing on opportunities and risks that are most important to our business success and stakeholders.
Job ID
JR92305
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.
Embedded Software Design Engineer Lead
Our equipment software team is looking to hire a driven, motivated, embedded software lead engineer! This lead will supervise a team of system and embedded software engineers developing software on bare metal, embedded Linux as well as higher level interface software. You will work with other software engineers and other engineering subject areas to develop custom semiconductor testers from the ground up. We work in a challenging, goal-focused, multi-disciplined develop engineering environment. We develop and support software for a variety of equipment built by our design team. Be a part of our team!
What’s Encouraged Daily:
Your daily work on our equipment software team would involve:
- Providing technical and soft skills mentoring to team members.
- Providing performance coaching and performance goal follow-ups with team members.
- Performing administrative tasks for team members.
- Embedded software development (bare metal, Linux development), hands-on hardware debug, providing feedback to schematic design, reviewing PCB layouts, prototyping circuits, debugging analog and digital hardware, testing, and documenting.
- System software development for back-end command and control framework, employing IOT protocols, collaborating with third party control devices, automating testing, and documenting.
- Coding primarily in C++, and Python under Linux for various microcontrollers and computing modules acting as the interface to in-house designed hardware. Other languages are used as needed.
- Working in cross-discipline design teams involving software, electrical, controls, and mechanical engineers.
- Collaborating globally with other team members.
- Crafting design and manufacturing documentation.
Hiring Group
Our distributed team, the Micron Systems Integration Group (SIG), designs and manufactures internal test equipment for Micron. We are continually being challenged with a wide range of software and hardware design projects that are essential to keep Micron at the forefront of the global memory market. We must be more agile, robust, efficient, and capable than our competitors.
Primary responsibilities
- 50/50 people leader and technical contributor role
- Supervise 4-6 team members, providing mentorship and performance management
- Help the team meet design commitments
- Work closely with software, electrical, mechanical, and control engineers in the design, development, and support of next-generation memory testers
- Develop/Debug in C++ and Python
- Use of lab equipment for design bring-up, debug, and testing
- Communication – written, spoken, creating technical documents in English
- As vital attend occasional off-hour collaboration meetings with portions of the distributed team
Minimum Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
- 5+ years of technical experience in a similar design role with 2 plus years of supervisory role.
- Software
- Proficiency in C++ (low-level and OO concepts)
- Familiarity with Linux and GNU tool chain
- Familiar with advanced OS concepts
- Familiar with concurrency concepts
- Inter-process communication experience
- Network configuration and debug experience
- Hardware
- Desire to work in a hands-on lab environment, curiosity of how things function
- Familiarity with schematics, and PCB layout
- Experience with lab equipment - power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, SMUs
- Knowledge of intermediate electrical engineering concepts
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years supervisory experience
- Project leadership experience
- Experience with using containers in development and deployment
- Experience with traceable calibration standards
- Software build tool familiarity
- System design experience (HW/SW)
- Familiarity with PLM software
- Experience and/or interest in developing Agentic AI workflows into current or future processes.
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.
Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is 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.
To learn more about Micron, please visit micron.com/careers
For US Sites Only: To request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact Micron’s People Organization at hrsupport_na@micron.com or 1-800-336-8918 (select option #3)
Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.
Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.
AI 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.
Fraud 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.
Micron Foundation
Strong communities and education are vital to the success of both society and innovative companies. Every Micron site understands the complex needs of their local community. Whether it’s through strategic giving, sponsorships or deploying team member volunteers, we are making a difference.
Sustainability
Micron is committed to sustainable practices and supporting our global community. We are building and maintaining sustainable operations, products, and communities while focusing on opportunities and risks that are most important to our business success and stakeholders.
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Verify your degree field aligns precisely
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree directly relates to embedded systems work. A degree in electrical or computer engineering is the strongest fit. Computer science degrees can qualify, but expect an RFE if your coursework lacks hardware or firmware components.
Search LCA filings for embedded roles
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter Labor Condition Application filings by SOC code 17-2061 (Electrical Engineers) or 15-1252 (Software Developers, Embedded). This shows which employers have actively sponsored H-1B workers in roles matching yours.
Target defense and automotive sector employers
Defense contractors and automotive OEMs file disproportionately high volumes of H-1B petitions for embedded roles. These industries have long product cycles that make multi-year sponsorship practical, and many have dedicated immigration counsel already on retainer.
Find verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Filter by Embedded Systems Engineer on Migrate Mate to see employers with documented H-1B LCA filing history for this role. This removes guesswork about which companies will sponsor before you invest time in their application process.
Clarify ITAR restrictions before accepting an offer
Many embedded roles at defense contractors fall under International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which restrict access to U.S. nationals only. Confirm whether a role is ITAR-controlled during interviews, as H-1B holders are generally not eligible for those positions regardless of sponsorship.
Confirm the employer files before the cap deadline
H-1B cap registration opens in March each year for an October 1 start date. If you receive an offer in May, your earliest possible start under cap-subject H-1B is 16 months away. Discuss timing explicitly so both sides understand the employment gap.
H-1B Visa Embedded Systems Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Embedded Systems Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. USCIS classifies Embedded Systems Engineer positions as specialty occupations when the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a directly related field. Roles requiring only general programming skills without a hardware or firmware component can face RFEs, so the job description needs to reflect the technical specialization clearly.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for embedded engineers?
Semiconductor manufacturers, automotive OEMs, medical device companies, aerospace and defense contractors, and industrial automation firms are among the most active sponsors. Defense contractors are a significant source of embedded roles, but many require U.S. citizenship due to ITAR restrictions, so verify clearance requirements before pursuing those opportunities. Use Migrate Mate to browse employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history in this field.
Can a computer science degree support an H-1B petition for an embedded systems role?
It can, but the connection must be specific. USCIS requires a direct relationship between the degree field and the job duties. A computer science degree with coursework in operating systems, microprocessors, or real-time systems strengthens the case. A general CS degree with no hardware-adjacent coursework is more likely to trigger a Request for Evidence asking for additional documentation of the degree-job nexus.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect embedded engineer job offers?
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your specific role, experience level, and work location before USCIS will approve the H-1B petition. Wage levels are set by the Office of Foreign Labor Certification using the OFLC Wage Search tool. Offers below the Level I or Level II threshold for your metro area can cause the LCA to be denied before the H-1B petition is even filed.
What happens to my H-1B status if my embedded systems project is transferred to a different employer entity?
An H-1B is employer-specific, so a transfer to a new legal entity, even within the same corporate family, typically requires a new H-1B petition filed by the successor employer. Under the AC21 portability rule, you can continue working for the new employer while the petition is pending if your current H-1B has been approved for at least 180 days and the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification.