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Full-stack Software Engineer roles sit squarely within STEM OPT eligibility for graduates with degrees in computer science, software engineering, or related fields. Your 24-month STEM OPT extension applies when your employer is enrolled in E-Verify, giving you up to 36 months total to build your U.S. engineering career.
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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.
About Our Team
Our team builds and enables scalable, cloud-native software platforms that power critical manufacturing and business operations. We use modern full stack engineering practices and AI-driven technologies to create innovative solutions that improve automation, decision making, and operational efficiency.
Position Overview
We are seeking an AI-Centric Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and support modern software solutions with a strong focus on AI-enabled applications and intelligent automation. This role goes beyond simply using AI coding assistants. You will have strong understanding of Prompt Engineering, Vibe Coding, Rework Rate Reduction and leverage Custom Agents, and integrations built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will apply strong software engineering fundamentals to assemble, integrate, and operationalize AI capabilities into real production systems being accountable for Full-Stack solutions.
The goal of this role is to significantly shorten development and feedback cycles by automating routine engineering work, augmenting human decision-making, and embedding intelligence directly into our development workflows and the applications we deliver!
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable full stack applications and platform services. Own software solutions end-to-end, including system design, architecture, implementation, testing, observability, deployment, and lifecycle support.
- Develop and implement custom AI agents to support workflow automation, decision support, summarization, and multi-step reasoning capabilities.
- Integrate AI services, large language models (LLMs), embeddings, search technologies, and external tools through secure and scalable APIs.
- Build and maintain MCP-based integrations to enable structured communication between AI models, tools, and business systems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
- Apply AI-assisted development practices while ensuring code quality, architectural integrity, security, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Harden AI components for 24x7 critical physical manufacturing systems with attention to reliability and resiliency, latency and performance, security, permissions, and data boundaries, and observability and maintainability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience developing production grade full stack or backend software applications, including API design, service integration, and data persistence.
- Hands on experience with cloud-native technologies, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Kubernetes based deployments.
- Experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and storage architecture design.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying AI-enabled applications, including custom AI agents and RAG-based systems.
- Demonstrated experience with prompt engineering and Vibe Coding Prototypes, AI tool integration, and evaluating AI system reliability, security, and failure modes.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building enterprise-scale distributed applications in cloud environments.
- Experience building and integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable: Structured context sharing between models, tools, and agents; Tool and capability exposure to LLM-based agents; Interoperability across AI components without hard-coded integrations.
- Proficiency with modern technology stacks such as C#, ASP.NET, Angular, SQL, NoSQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience developing AI agent skills, tool invocation frameworks, and multi-agent workflow solutions.
- Strong understanding of prompt engineering, context window management, chain-of-thought design, and AI workflow optimization.
- Experience architecting highly available, critical systems with focus on performance, resiliency, observability, and security.
- Track record of leading architecture discussions, conducting code reviews, and establishing engineering standards and guidelines.
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 about your right to work click here.
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.
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.
About Our Team
Our team builds and enables scalable, cloud-native software platforms that power critical manufacturing and business operations. We use modern full stack engineering practices and AI-driven technologies to create innovative solutions that improve automation, decision making, and operational efficiency.
Position Overview
We are seeking an AI-Centric Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and support modern software solutions with a strong focus on AI-enabled applications and intelligent automation. This role goes beyond simply using AI coding assistants. You will have strong understanding of Prompt Engineering, Vibe Coding, Rework Rate Reduction and leverage Custom Agents, and integrations built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will apply strong software engineering fundamentals to assemble, integrate, and operationalize AI capabilities into real production systems being accountable for Full-Stack solutions.
The goal of this role is to significantly shorten development and feedback cycles by automating routine engineering work, augmenting human decision-making, and embedding intelligence directly into our development workflows and the applications we deliver!
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable full stack applications and platform services. Own software solutions end-to-end, including system design, architecture, implementation, testing, observability, deployment, and lifecycle support.
- Develop and implement custom AI agents to support workflow automation, decision support, summarization, and multi-step reasoning capabilities.
- Integrate AI services, large language models (LLMs), embeddings, search technologies, and external tools through secure and scalable APIs.
- Build and maintain MCP-based integrations to enable structured communication between AI models, tools, and business systems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
- Apply AI-assisted development practices while ensuring code quality, architectural integrity, security, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Harden AI components for 24x7 critical physical manufacturing systems with attention to reliability and resiliency, latency and performance, security, permissions, and data boundaries, and observability and maintainability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience developing production grade full stack or backend software applications, including API design, service integration, and data persistence.
- Hands on experience with cloud-native technologies, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Kubernetes based deployments.
- Experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and storage architecture design.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying AI-enabled applications, including custom AI agents and RAG-based systems.
- Demonstrated experience with prompt engineering and Vibe Coding Prototypes, AI tool integration, and evaluating AI system reliability, security, and failure modes.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building enterprise-scale distributed applications in cloud environments.
- Experience building and integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable: Structured context sharing between models, tools, and agents; Tool and capability exposure to LLM-based agents; Interoperability across AI components without hard-coded integrations.
- Proficiency with modern technology stacks such as C#, ASP.NET, Angular, SQL, NoSQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience developing AI agent skills, tool invocation frameworks, and multi-agent workflow solutions.
- Strong understanding of prompt engineering, context window management, chain-of-thought design, and AI workflow optimization.
- Experience architecting highly available, critical systems with focus on performance, resiliency, observability, and security.
- Track record of leading architecture discussions, conducting code reviews, and establishing engineering standards and guidelines.
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 about your right to work click here.
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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Full-stack Software Engineer
Verify your CIP code before applying
Your STEM OPT extension depends on your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code matching a STEM-designated field. Ask your DSO to confirm your program's CIP code is on the SEVP STEM list before you start the extension process.
Filter job listings by E-Verify status
Only employers enrolled in E-Verify can legally hire you on STEM OPT. Check a company's E-Verify participation before investing time in an application. Migrate Mate filters Full-stack Software Engineer roles by verified E-Verify enrollment so you don't waste interviews on ineligible employers.
Target teams with prior OPT hiring history
Engineering teams that have hired F-1 students before understand I-983 training plans and USCIS reporting cycles. Prioritize companies with dedicated HR processes for F-1 work authorization rather than those encountering it for the first time.
Draft your I-983 training plan alongside your offer negotiation
The I-983 must name specific learning objectives tied to your STEM degree, not generic job duties. Start outlining measurable goals aligned to your computer science or software engineering coursework while you're still reviewing the offer, so it's ready to file on your start date.
Benchmark your offered salary against DOL prevailing wages
Full-stack Software Engineer falls under SOC code 15-1252. Use the OFLC Wage Search to pull the Level I through Level IV prevailing wage for your employer's location before accepting an offer. Accepting below the applicable wage level can create compliance problems for your employer during USCIS audits.
Understand cap-gap coverage before your OPT expires
If your employer files an H-1B visa petition on your behalf before your OPT EAD expires and you're selected in the lottery, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30. Confirm with your DSO that your I-20 reflects the cap-gap period before your EAD end date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Full-stack Software Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, Full-stack Software Engineer qualifies under SOC code 15-1252, which falls within STEM-designated fields recognized by SEVP. Your degree must also carry a STEM-designated CIP code, such as computer science (11.0701) or software engineering (14.0903). Your DSO confirms both the degree CIP code and the role match before recommending the extension on your I-20.
What E-Verify requirement does my employer need to meet for STEM OPT?
Your employer must be actively enrolled in E-Verify, not just registered. Enrollment means the company has completed the memorandum of understanding with DHS and can run employment eligibility verification through the E-Verify system. You can ask your HR contact for the company's E-Verify employer ID number to confirm active participation before you file your I-983 training plan.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for a software engineering role?
The I-983 must connect your job duties to specific knowledge, skills, and competencies from your STEM degree. For Full-stack Software Engineer roles, this typically means identifying how frontend architecture, backend systems design, or database engineering directly applies learning from your coursework. Generic duty lists aren't sufficient. USCIS expects measurable learning objectives and a supervision structure with a named supervisor.
How does cap-gap work if my employer sponsors my H-1B while I'm on STEM OPT?
If your employer files an H-1B petition before your STEM OPT EAD expires and USCIS selects you in the H-1B lottery, your work authorization automatically extends through September 30 of that year under cap-gap rules. Your DSO must update your I-20 to reflect the cap-gap extension. You can continue working as a Full-stack Software Engineer without interruption during that period as long as the petition remains pending or approved.
Where can I find Full-stack Software Engineer jobs at E-Verify enrolled employers?
Migrate Mate lists Full-stack Software Engineer roles filtered by employers enrolled in E-Verify, so you can confirm STEM OPT eligibility before applying. You can also cross-reference a company's E-Verify participation directly through the E-Verify employer search tool maintained by DHS. Combining both approaches lets you target roles where you're authorized to work without relying on the employer to self-report.