Senior Engineer I - Product (New Product Introduction)

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Job Description:

Microchip has been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by prestigious publications like Forbes, Bay Area News and Phoenix Business Journal.  The FPGA Business Unit (formerly Actel, with a 35+ year uninterrupted legacy of providing programmable logic solutions) is one of the largest and most profitable BUs inside Microchip. We have revolutionized the FPGA industry with the industry’s most awarded FPGA families - the PolarFire FPGA family and the first RISC-V based PolarFire SoC, delivering class leading power efficiency, reliability and security. With this portfolio, we have enabled commercial applications like the world’s most innovative AI-enabled embedded vision and smart automation products, the world’s most secure and reliable 5G communications networks, as well as the world’s most sophisticated aerospace products that have delivered payloads to Mars and beyond. If you are looking to be a part of a team that is transforming the world of low power compute whilst delivering exceptional top line growth rates, you will be challenged to find a better place to contribute, grow your career and learn to deliver truly remarkable solutions.

Microchip FPGA BU is looking for a talented, passionate and creative Product Engineering Technical Program Manager to join our new product development team.

The candidate will support the pre-production rollout of new products. This cross-functional role will provide opportunities to interact with and support many product rollout players including Test Engineering, Package Engineering, Yield Enhancement, Engineering Planners, Qualification Engineers, Quality, Marketing, and Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and coordinate early builds for engineering in support of validation

• Manage inventory and coordinate Early Sample (ES) and pre-production (PP) builds in support of family rollout, stocking plans, and pre-production forecast

• Monitor package test yields through statistical analysis

• Work on enhancements to meet test goal targets

• Manage production holds to enable customer shipments and revenue.

• Develop scripts to monitor yields, track builds and identify bottlenecks. Report status to rollout team

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, 5+ years of industry-related experience in electrical engineering or computer science.

• Master’s degree or equivalent, 3+ years of industry-related experience in electrical engineering or computer science.

• A minimum of 1 year in Product engineering, product planning or program management

• Hands-on experience with data management tools and languages like KLA and JMP

• Knowledge of solid-state physics and microelectronics is required.

• Skilled with scripting languages like TCL/PERL/Python, C and C++ , and Visual Basic.

• Team player

• Excellent communication

• Result driven

• Methodical and organized

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Feeling, Handling, Hearing, Other, Seeing, Talking, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

70% Sitting, 15% Walking, 15% Standing, Usual Business Hours

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 ESPP program with a 2 year 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, which could be performed in California, is $70,000 - $163,000.*

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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