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Forward deployed engineering roles sit at the intersection of software development and customer-facing problem solving, and that hybrid profile qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B visa, E-3 visa, and H-1B1 visa standards. Employers in this space file LCAs regularly, making verified sponsorship history straightforward to confirm before you apply. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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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.
Micron’s Innovation, Technology & Products (ITP) organization seeks a Director of AI Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team working side-by-side with ITP product teams. The organization aims to bring artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, automation, and AI-powered engineering capabilities into the spaces where Micron engineers invent and develop memory and storage products.
This leader will be responsible for the final stage of ITP AI delivery, improving AI agents, custom models, and AI-enhanced engineering workflows from initial exploration to production release and ongoing management. The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team will handle both the deployment and maintenance of these solutions. Their focus includes production reliability, scalability, optimization, telemetry, and observability across the ITP AI stack, covering applications, agents, models, data, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Direct forward deployed delivery for ITP product teams by integrating FDE engineers into engineering departments. They discover high-impact use cases and develop production-ready solutions. These cover AI agents, agentic workflows, data science, custom models like small language models (SLMs), and AI-powered engineering and CAD workflows.
- Advance AI solutions from pathfinding through pilot and into production, incorporating operational readiness, monitoring, runbooks, support, security, scalability, and reliability from day one. Produce repeatable deployment instructions and reference architectures that speed up delivery cycles across ITP.
- Accelerate adoption and measurable business impact by partnering with product team leaders to translate engineering challenges into prioritized AI opportunities and track improvements in adoption, efficiency, engineering cycle time, quality, reliability, and cost.
- Develop and lead the FDE organization by sourcing, growing, and retaining a skilled team of forward deployed engineers, SRE/operations engineers, and AI/ML engineers. Handle team resources, priorities, and budget guided by ITP business value while partnering with architecture, platform, support, product, and Information Technology teams.
- Own production operations and reliability for deployed ITP AI solutions by establishing service-level objectives (SLOs), appropriate service-level agreements (SLAs) and error budgets, on-call rotations and blocking issue response models, incident management, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and change, release, and rollback practices that protect production stability.
- Provide accountable leadership during production incidents by driving rapid service restoration. Communicate clearly with impacted product teams and help prevent recurrence. Proactively identify and eliminate single points of failure, capacity risks, and operational toil through automation.
- Drive telemetry, observability, and continuous optimization across the AI stack through logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and health scorecards that provide access to production system health and usage. Use operational insights to continuously improve performance, reliability, cost efficiency, model quality, and ITP AI, data, and platform roadmaps.
- Measure and communicate the success of deployed AI capabilities, including business value delivered as solutions move from pathfinding to production, production availability and SLO attainment, performance and cost improvements, solution adoption, and happiness among ITP engineers.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a similar field.
- 15 years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML, data science, or engineering solutions, with more than 7 years managing engineering teams.
- Proven experience owning production operations for enterprise-critical systems, including on-call operations, incident management, observability, root-cause analysis, service-level objectives, and production reliability.
- Demonstrated experience deploying AI/ML, generative AI, or related AI-enabled solutions into production and driving adoption across multiple engineering or product teams.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across AI/ML engineering, production software and infrastructure, data systems, automation, and operational reliability.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related technical area.
- Experience in semiconductor, memory, storage, or related product development environments, with knowledge of complex engineering, building, verification, and CAD workflows.
- Experience building and leading forward deployed, customer-embedded, SRE, production engineering, AI/ML, or similar technical groups.
- Extensive background in AI agents and autonomous workflows, generative AI, machine learning models, compact language models, AI-assisted engineering processes, production AI monitoring, and model performance.
- Demonstrated leadership grounded in ownership, operational excellence, technical depth, a builder approach, cross-functional collaboration, innovation, and customer focus.
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.
INTRODUCTION
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.
Micron’s Innovation, Technology & Products (ITP) organization seeks a Director of AI Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team working side-by-side with ITP product teams. The organization aims to bring artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, automation, and AI-powered engineering capabilities into the spaces where Micron engineers invent and develop memory and storage products.
This leader will be responsible for the final stage of ITP AI delivery, improving AI agents, custom models, and AI-enhanced engineering workflows from initial exploration to production release and ongoing management. The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team will handle both the deployment and maintenance of these solutions. Their focus includes production reliability, scalability, optimization, telemetry, and observability across the ITP AI stack, covering applications, agents, models, data, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Direct forward deployed delivery for ITP product teams by integrating FDE engineers into engineering departments. They discover high-impact use cases and develop production-ready solutions. These cover AI agents, agentic workflows, data science, custom models like small language models (SLMs), and AI-powered engineering and CAD workflows.
- Advance AI solutions from pathfinding through pilot and into production, incorporating operational readiness, monitoring, runbooks, support, security, scalability, and reliability from day one. Produce repeatable deployment instructions and reference architectures that speed up delivery cycles across ITP.
- Accelerate adoption and measurable business impact by partnering with product team leaders to translate engineering challenges into prioritized AI opportunities and track improvements in adoption, efficiency, engineering cycle time, quality, reliability, and cost.
- Develop and lead the FDE organization by sourcing, growing, and retaining a skilled team of forward deployed engineers, SRE/operations engineers, and AI/ML engineers. Handle team resources, priorities, and budget guided by ITP business value while partnering with architecture, platform, support, product, and Information Technology teams.
- Own production operations and reliability for deployed ITP AI solutions by establishing service-level objectives (SLOs), appropriate service-level agreements (SLAs) and error budgets, on-call rotations and blocking issue response models, incident management, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and change, release, and rollback practices that protect production stability.
- Provide accountable leadership during production incidents by driving rapid service restoration. Communicate clearly with impacted product teams and help prevent recurrence. Proactively identify and eliminate single points of failure, capacity risks, and operational toil through automation.
- Drive telemetry, observability, and continuous optimization across the AI stack through logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and health scorecards that provide access to production system health and usage. Use operational insights to continuously improve performance, reliability, cost efficiency, model quality, and ITP AI, data, and platform roadmaps.
- Measure and communicate the success of deployed AI capabilities, including business value delivered as solutions move from pathfinding to production, production availability and SLO attainment, performance and cost improvements, solution adoption, and happiness among ITP engineers.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a similar field.
- 15 years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML, data science, or engineering solutions, with more than 7 years managing engineering teams.
- Proven experience owning production operations for enterprise-critical systems, including on-call operations, incident management, observability, root-cause analysis, service-level objectives, and production reliability.
- Demonstrated experience deploying AI/ML, generative AI, or related AI-enabled solutions into production and driving adoption across multiple engineering or product teams.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across AI/ML engineering, production software and infrastructure, data systems, automation, and operational reliability.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related technical area.
- Experience in semiconductor, memory, storage, or related product development environments, with knowledge of complex engineering, building, verification, and CAD workflows.
- Experience building and leading forward deployed, customer-embedded, SRE, production engineering, AI/ML, or similar technical groups.
- Extensive background in AI agents and autonomous workflows, generative AI, machine learning models, compact language models, AI-assisted engineering processes, production AI monitoring, and model performance.
- Demonstrated leadership grounded in ownership, operational excellence, technical depth, a builder approach, cross-functional collaboration, innovation, and customer focus.
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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Frame your degree for specialty occupation
FDE roles blend software engineering with solutions architecture. Make sure your resume explicitly maps your computer science, engineering, or information systems degree to both the coding and customer-facing components of the role, since USCIS evaluates degree-to-job alignment directly.
Search LCA filings by role title
FDE job titles vary widely across employers. Run searches for 'forward deployed engineer,' 'solutions engineer,' and 'field engineer' in OFLC's public disclosure data to find which companies have certified LCAs for these positions, then target those employers first.
Verify prevailing wage tier before negotiating
FDE roles that include client-site travel or on-call deployment often map to a higher wage level in the OFLC Wage Search than a standard software engineer title. Check the wage level before your offer negotiation so your salary clears the LCA threshold without surprises.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified FDE sponsors
FDE sponsorship history isn't visible on most job boards. Migrate Mate shows employers with verified LCA filing history for engineering and solutions roles, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already committed to sponsorship paperwork for this type of position.
Clarify H-1B transfer timing with your new employer
If you're already in H-1B status, you can start with a new FDE employer once the new petition is filed with USCIS. Confirm that the employer will file before your start date, not after, since your authorization to work for them begins at petition receipt, not approval.
Prepare for specialty occupation RFEs on FDE titles
USCIS sometimes issues Requests for Evidence on 'forward deployed engineer' petitions because the client-facing duties can appear nontechnical on paper. Ask your employer to include a detailed duty breakdown showing that a specific technical degree is required, not just preferred.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a forward deployed engineering role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer documents that the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical discipline. The key is showing USCIS that the client-deployment and troubleshooting duties require that specific technical knowledge, not just general problem-solving skills. Roles that blend sales or account management into the job description can attract RFEs if the technical requirements aren't clearly articulated.
Which visas can sponsor a forward deployed engineering position?
H-1B is the most common path and covers the broadest range of nationalities. Australian nationals can use the E-3, which has no lottery and a cap that has never been exhausted. Chilean and Singaporean nationals may qualify under H-1B1 visa. TN visa is not available for forward deployed engineering because the role doesn't appear on the USMCA profession list. F-1 students can work in FDE roles under OPT or STEM OPT if the position directly relates to their STEM degree.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor forward deployed engineers?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for engineering and technical roles, so you can search specifically for companies that have already filed for positions similar to FDE. That's the most direct way to avoid applying to employers who may be open to sponsorship in theory but have no track record of actually completing the filing process.
Do FDE roles typically require a specific degree, or does experience substitute?
USCIS requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field for specialty occupation status. For H-1B petitions, three years of specialized experience can substitute for one year of education, so a combination of an associate's degree plus substantial relevant experience may meet the threshold. However, the degree-to-role match still needs to be specific. A general business degree won't support an FDE petition the way a computer science or systems engineering degree will.
Can an FDE role qualify for STEM OPT extension?
It can, if the role directly relates to a STEM-designated degree and the employer is enrolled in E-Verify. Forward deployed engineering typically maps to computer and information sciences or engineering degree programs, both of which appear on the STEM OPT designated degree program list. Your employer must sign a Form I-983 training plan, and your designated school official authorizes the extension. The role itself doesn't need a formal 'engineering' title, but the technical duties must align with your STEM field.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Forward Deployed Engineering jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.