Principal Engineer - Design

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Job Description:

The Principal Engineer - Design will join Microchip’s rapidly growing Data Center Solutions (DCS) business unit, delivering high-performance silicon solutions used by leading server and storage OEMs and hyperscale data centers. DCS products enable workloads ranging from cloud and big data storage to AI/ML acceleration, shaping the next generation of data center infrastructure.
The DCS portfolio includes SAS, PCIe, NVMe, and CXL infrastructure products, Flash Controllers, High-Performance Switches, and advanced memory infrastructure solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to drive architecture, design excellence, and methodology innovation in complex data center–class ASICs
Key Responsibilities
• Lead architecture and micro-architecture definition for complex IPs, subsystems, or full-chip designs.
• Drive end-to-end RTL design execution, from concept through synthesis, sign-off, and silicon bring-up support.
• Serve as a technical authority for digital design, ensuring high standards in quality, performance, power, and area (PPA).

• Resolve complex, cross-domain design and EDA tool challenges impacting schedule or silicon quality.
• Collaborate closely with verification, physical design, DFT, system, and product teams to ensure robust and predictable
delivery.
• Guide low-power, high-performance design strategies suitable for data center workloads.
• Influence protocol and platform roadmap decisions, particularly in PCIe, CXL, NVMe, SAS, and related interconnects.

• Mentor and technically guide engineers, providing architectural reviews and design direction.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC digital design.
• Bachelor degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering minimum
• Strong expertise in SystemVerilog RTL design and micro-architecture development.
• Proven success delivering multiple complex tape-outs in high-performance or data center–class silicon.
• Deep hands-on experience with Lint, CDC, formal verification, logic synthesis, and static timing analysis.
• Strong understanding of physical design interactions, including timing, power, and congestion considerations.
• Solid experience with low-power design methodologies and flows.
• Mandatory knowledge of DFT, including scan, testability considerations, and DFT sign-off interactions.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Tcl, Perl, and/or Awk.
• Hands-on experience with high-speed protocols such as PCIe, CXL, NVMe, SAS/SATA, or similar serial interfaces.

• Experience in AI-driven workflows to accelerate AI development.

• Hands-on experience with Cadence-based ASIC design environments is an asset

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