Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 20,000-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.

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Job Description:

At Microchip, we work every day to innovate and develop products that solve our customers’ technology challenges. Our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide is dedicated to delivering on the promise of working together to improve lives. Learn about our guiding values that are the building blocks and foundation of our culture and discover how we make a positive impact in the communities in which we operate. We believe our culture fosters trust, collaboration and belonging. Our people serve the industrial, computing, automotive, communications, aerospace and defense, and consumer market segments. As part of our global team, you can build technology solutions in our six growth areas – 5G, data centers, autonomous driving, the Internet of Things, electric vehicles, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Around the world, we are committed every day to recruiting, retaining and promoting people in our diverse workforce. Your perspective, passion and ingenuity will contribute to achieving more as we fulfill our mission as a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Join our community of exceptional people doing incredible things.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will join the rapidly growing Data Center Solutions (DCS) business unit at Microchip. DCS has a broad portfolio of products widely deployed 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.

As a Tech Staff Engineer - Design (SoC) in the Microchip Data Center Solutions group, you will get hands-on experience developing our next generation of CXL Smart memory controller SOC products. This will involve verifying a design from initial concept to production form. Throughout you will work beside experienced engineers and be exposed to Microchip’s Best-In-Class engineering practices. Working alongside with some of the brightest minds and most innovative people in the industry, you won’t just fill a position, you will be given an opportunity

to work on a team where your contributions matter. You will be challenged and encouraged to discover the power of innovation. Microchip fosters continuous learning in a challenging and rewarding environment. If this sounds like the kind of environment you’d like to participate in, we’d like to hear from you!

Responsibilities include:

• Perform design of a RTL design of IP and SoC sub-systems by working with cross-functional teams globally.
• Pre-silicon design test planning and RTL debug.
• Support Emulation and debug of the IP solutions.
• Support Post-silicon integration, bring-up, and validation.
• Learning and dynamically applying knowledge of the SoC, protocols and standards.
• Effectively presenting technical information to small teams of engineers.
• The role and responsibilities will grow with the individual candidate’s skills and interests.
• Design ownership of complex digital integrated circuits at the block, subsystem or device level, which are coded in Verilog, System Verilog.
• Translate complex architectural requirements into a Design Test Plan that is realizable in targeted technology node.
• Lead and mentor fellow design engineers; scope and schedule deliverables.
• Define subsystem/block feature design, describe design and implementation details into design engineering documents and registers documents.
• Communicate regularly with the design and verification team in multiple locations to resolve issues, communicate status and solve technical problems.
• Communicate with architects to understand requirements and discuss results.
• Become versed in applicable protocols like PCIe, CXL, DDR etc.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years related experience.
• RTL Design - Experience in RTL Design using System Verilog UVM.
• Experience and understanding of complex SoC design flows, including block and chip level simulation and debug, logic synthesis, static timing analysis, layout and revision control.
• Working knowledge of design and verification tools such as Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Incisive, waveform viewers, and other similar tools.
• Scripting and programming skills using csh, bash, perl, python, tcl, etc. 
• Protocol knowledge and experience in PCIe, CXL. DDR, SAS will be an asset.
• Knowledge of AHB/AXI bus protocols is desired.
• Experience with Formal Design a plus.
• Experience in using third party VIPs is desired.
• Experience in integration of high speed, mixed signal IP models.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills and the ability to proactively solve issues.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English will be an asset.
• Excellent teamwork and time management skills, self-direction, the ability to work under pressure and the desire to excel in a competitive environment.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

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

Physical Requirements:

Regular business hours. 70% sitting, 15% standing, 15% walking

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 $88,000 - $232,000.*

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.

For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the EEO is the Law Poster and the EEO is the Law Poster Supplement. Please also refer to the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.