Principal Engineer-Firmware Development

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Burnaby, BC, CAN
In-Office
86K-186K Annually
Senior level
Hardware • Semiconductor
The Role
Seeking an engineer for firmware development, focusing on PCIe Switch firmware, involving design, debugging, and team collaboration.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!

Job Description:

We are seeking a self‑motivated and energetic engineer to join our firmware and software team. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, unit testing, and verification of our industry‑leading Switchtec™ System‑on‑Chip (SoC) PCI Express (PCIe) switching products. You’ll collaborate with team members across multiple sites, working within an agile environment that values technical excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement. 

Responsibilities

  • Analyze product requirements and design, develop, integrate, debug, verify and validate firmware, drivers, software components, unit test frameworks, verification systems, and DevOps tools
  • Lead and participate in architecture, specification, design, and implementation reviews with cross-functional team members
  • Collaborate with firmware teams and partner with chip design, emulation, validation, and application engineering teams on pre-silicon development and post-silicon bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and customer support
  • Investigate and resolve issues identified internally or reported by global customers in lab and field environments
  • Develop, review, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including engineering documents, and customer-facing materials
  • Mentor junior firmware engineers through design reviews, code reviews, process adherence, and continuous improvement initiatives

Requirements/Qualifications:

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
  • At least 5 years of embedded application software or high-level embedded software development experience
  • Strong proficiency in C and at least one assembly language programming
  • Expert in peripheral driver development for GPIO, I2C/SMBus, I3C, UART, SPI, USB, flash and other common accessories; strong knowledge of SoC, RTOS, multi‑threading, and SMP firmware development
  • Expertise in at least one RISC CPU architecture and its instruction set
  • Excellent research, analytical, and problem‑solving abilities with strong documentation and communication skills
  • Self‑motivated, team‑oriented, resourceful, and quality‑focused, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to achieve goals with minimal supervision

Value-add Qualifications

  • Familiarity with security related standards and specifications in embedded systems, including secure boot, attestation, and supply-chain security
  • Experience leveraging AI to assist firmware and software development
  • Proven ability to lead cross-site teams and mentor engineers on complex firmware projects

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 $86,000-$186,000.*

*Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

To all recruitment agencies: Microchip Technology Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our recruiting team or other Microchip employees. Microchip is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Top Skills

Ai-Assisted Tools
Assembly Language
C
Gpio
I2C/Smbus
I3C
Multi-Threading
Nor Flash
Peripheral Driver Development
Rtos
Soc
Spi
Uart
Usb
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The Company
HQ: Chandler, AZ
13,393 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading semiconductor supplier of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market. The company’s solutions serve more than 125,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

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