Senior Technical Staff Engineer-Software

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Job Description :

Microchip’s FPGA software engineering team develops the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software used by our customers to program Microchip FPGAs.

Customers perform their entire FPGA design flow using our software : from design entry, to synthesis, through place-and-route, timing, power analysis, and simulation.

The High-Level Synthesis (HLS) software engineering group develops Microchip’s high-level synthesis integrated development environment.

High-level synthesis allows our customers to program FPGAs using the C / C++ software language. Customers who program FPGAs using the C / C++ language are significantly more productive because C / C++ has a higher level of abstraction than traditional low-level FPGA languages like Verilog / VHDL.

Customers achieve shorter design times, easier verification, and faster time-to-market using high-level synthesis.

As a software engineer in the High-Level Synthesis group, you will work on cutting-edge high-level synthesis compiler software with a team of industry-leading experts.

You will be joining an agile fast-paced engineering team, where you will solve highly challenging yet interesting problems.

You will have ownership over meaningful new software projects from inception to research and development, testing, writing user documentation, and releasing to Microchip FPGA customers.

The software engineering team is based in Toronto. The Microchip office is in the downtown financial core at 67 Yonge Street.

Responsibilities :

Support customers who are designing complex real-life applications with high-level synthesis software and give guidance and advice.

From customer interactions, prioritize roadmap or identify new HLS features and gaps in performance / area compared to expected optimized hardware.

Contribute to our state-of-the-art high-level synthesis compiler to generate high-performance FPGA hardware from a C / C++ algorithmic description.

Our high-level synthesis software is built on the open-source LLVM compiler infrastructure. You will develop and improve LLVM compiler transformation and analysis passes for targeting FPGAs.

Optimize the HLS-generated hardware architecture to improve the quality of the generated hardware circuit (Fmax and area).

Design HLS-optimized libraries for computer vision (OpenCV), math functions, machine learning, and digital signal processing filters.

Investigate next-generation FPGA architecture features and determine how we can simplify the next-generation of FPGA design using our high-level synthesis software.

Requirements / Qualifications :

Job Requirements

Minimum Qualifications :

BS, MS or PhD Degree in computer science or electrical / computer engineering.

10+ years of Software Engineering experience.

Excellent programming skills. Proficient in C / C++.

Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Strong knowledge of digital design and in-depth working experience with FPGAs.

Preferred Qualifications :

Strong knowledge of compilers. Experience working with the LLVM compiler is a definite plus.

Exposure to high-level synthesis tools.

Experience with Git source code version control.

Experience with shell scripting languages (Perl, Python, Bash, TCL).

Comfortable with large-scale software development in both Linux and Windows environments.

Travel Time : 0% - 25%

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.*

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

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