Technical Staff Engineer - Applications

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Job Description :

The candidate will join the rapidly growing Data Center Solutions (DCS) business unit at Microchip. DCS has a broad portfolio of products being broadly deployed today by the industry’s cutting edge server / storage OEMs and hyperscale datacenters. Customers deploy DCS solutions into applications ranging from Big Data capacity storage to artificial intelligence and machine learning that are helping to shape the next digital age. Our product portfolio includes SAS / PCIe / NVMe / CXL products that connect, manage and secure the world’s information, including Flash Controllers, High Performance Switches, RAID Controllers and Memory Controllers. Join a team where you can expand your skill set and drive key elements of the industry’s technology leadership.

Our Applications Engineering Team is responsible for working closely with the Product Development Teams, Product Validation Teams, Marketing Teams, and Sales Teams to enable our Tier 1 storage / data center customers to bring their solutions to market. We work with leading edge technology that gets deployed in data center, machine-learning / AI, and storage applications. We engage with customer engineering teams to assist in design wins, product ramp, and system production. We offer a challenging and dynamic working environment with opportunities to make substantial contributions toward the success of our business.

Responsibilities :

Lead and mentor 3-5 applications engineers : scope and schedule deliverables

Work closely with hyperscale and Tier 1 storage customers in North America and worldwideto define requirements, manage deliverables and support platforms from initial bring-up to full production

Support, manage, maintain collateral and hardware guides for processor based storage integrated circuits and reference designs

Understand architectures and HW / SW designs in order to characterize customer related problems, providing both timely technical support and engineering feedback

Develop customer level documentation and training material

Work independently, and in a cross-functional team environment

Travel within North America and internationally as needed to customer sites to debug systems for our market leading PCIe switch products

Requirements / Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS, or CE

10+ years of industry experience

Strong technical leadership, teamwork, communication, and presentation skills

Thorough knowledge of circuit theory and high speed signal fundamentals

Strong debugging skills and experience with bench top equipment such as protocol analyzers / exercisers, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.

Experience with board-level debug & bring-up

Customer-facing experience

Ability to effectively work with cross-functional teams and across multiple geographical locations

Familiarity with storage networking concepts and protocols (PCIe, SAS and SATA, SCSI, 10 / 100 / 1000 Ethernet, TCP / IP)

Desired Qualifications :

Expertise in PCIe, NVMe, CXL, SAS, SATA

Expertise in signal integrity, high speed SERDES architecture and support, spice or IBIS AMI simulation

Strong system design skills

Experience working with Marketing and Sales teams

Project management experience

Hardware, board level, and chip level development / debug skills

Experience with RISC based embedded processors (MIPS preferred)

Experience in the Storage Industry

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 : The annual base salary range for this position is $107,000 - $226,000.

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