Engineer I - Design

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.

People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.

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Job Description:

Building tomorrow’s technology doesn’t just take hard work. It also takes teamwork, talent, and a desire to go “above and beyond”. Together, these make the impossible possible. This is Engineering at Microchip.

We are Microchip’s Communications Business Unit (CBU), a premier supplier for 100Gbps+ networking and System on Chip (SoC) devices. We develop next-generation technologies that are revolutionizing communications and the Internet. Our award-winning products are used by major technology companies to enable high performance spaceflight computing and high-bandwidth, cloud-based applications such as streaming services, social media platforms and video conferencing. We make it happen.

Our Systems Engineering group is looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as we validate leading-edge semiconductor devices.   We invent systems and tests to ensure Microchip’s brand-new products operate correctly in their intended applications. We require dynamic, versatile engineers who want to participate in design, bring up, and test of complete systems (boards, ICs, firmware, and software).  You will work closely with leading edge technologies such as Ethernet, PCI Express, FPGAs, fiber optics, 112Gbps SERDES, and RISC-V embedded processors in the PIC64 family. You will experience limitless learning and growth opportunities. Your work will add real value to Microchip’s products.

As a member of our team, you must be highly motivated to learn, have first-class debugging and problem-solving skills, be motivated to develop sophisticated hardware and software platforms, and be able to quickly master the devices and systems that Microchip develops.

What we do:

• Design high-speed boards (up to 112 Gbps) using Microchip and third-party ICs, digital and analog circuits, and large programmable devices.
• Design highly integrated, sophisticated FPGAs using VHDL/SystemVerilog.
• Integrate complex test platforms containing multiple CPUs, high speed backplanes, traffic generation devices/testers, software, and our boards.

• Plan and execute device feature tests, including results analysis, bug detection, and extensive root-cause analysis using Python and C/C++.
• Work with leading edge test equipment such as 800GE Ethernet testers, oscilloscopes, phase noise analyzers, network analyzers, and microprocessor trace probes.
• Integrate software SDK to control our hardware systems.
• Create application-level system configuration scripts to control the device, the test platform, and the test equipment using Python.
• Create embedded processor test applications to benchmark and stress multi-core SOCs using C/C++
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems in embedded multi-core SOCs.
• Work closely with and support members of the Product Design, Verification, Software, Software Test, Applications, Marketing, and Product Engineering teams.
• Add value to our devices by finding issues and developing and testing solutions.

What we offer:

• Continuous technical innovation in a fast paced and engaging environment.
• Continuous career development with training opportunities.
• Opportunity to impact today’s technology to enable tomorrow’s applications.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Required Skill Set

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering.
• You want to be part of an exciting, dynamic, and challenging work environment, requiring rapid and constant learning and skills development. 
• You have a systematic approach to problem-solving within a team and on your own.  When something isn’t working properly, it’s important to you to figure out why.

Preferred Skill Set

• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• The more experience with these, the better:
  • Designing electronic hardware and systems.
  • FPGAs and HDL languages such as VHDL/ System Verilog design.
  • Python and/or other scripting languages like TCL, Perl.
  • C driver API development.
  • Lab test equipment.
  • Linux operating systems.
  • Related COOP experiences.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading IESPP program with a 6-month look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position is $76,000- $114,000.*

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