Senior Engineer II - Applications
Microchip Technology
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Job Description:
Company Description
Microchip Technology Incorporated, is a leading supplier of field-programmable embedded control solutions by delivering a broad spectrum of innovative microcontrollers, analog, mixed-signal and security products, wired and wireless connectivity products, related non-volatile memory products and Flash-IP solutions.
Data Center Solutions (DCS) Business Unit
The Data Center Solutions Business Unit within Microchip designs enterprise class storage products to enable the world’s leading enterprises and data centers utilizing the latest RAID, Security, PCIe, NVMe, SAS, SATA, SDRAM, NAND, CXL technologies. As a member of the Applications Engineering team, a successful applicant will be involved in providing best-in-class technical support to our customers for one or more of the Data Center Solution products. Our Applications Engineering Team is responsible for providing best-in-class technical support for our customers to evaluate, develop and ramp to production with our solutions, by working closely with the Product Development, Product Validation, Marketing, and Sales teams. This involves, but not limited to, developing and delivering training, customer collaterals and debug tools, resolving the problems and challenges. We offer a challenging and dynamic working environment with opportunities to learn and make substantial contributions toward the success of our business.
Responsibilities
- Support, manage and resolve the technical issues related to DCS Hardware and Firmware/Software products
- Debug Firmware, Software and protocol level issues for enterprise storage devices
- Develop and maintain customer collaterals such as FW User Manual, Quick Start Guide, Release Notes, Errata, Application Notes etc.
- Develop and provide product training to customers and internal teams
- Develop debug tools using C, Python, TCL/Tk
- Reproduce customer reported problems and perform root cause analysis
- Test customer Firmware releases
Requirements/Qualifications:
Qualifications
- Bachelors/Master’s degree in Electronics or equivalent Engineering
- Minimum 7 years of experience in related fields
- Strong Firmware / Embedded Systems development and debug skills
- Experience in design, develop and testing of firmware using C language
- Experience in developing debug tools using any of the scripting languages (Java, TCL/TK, PERL, Python etc.)
- Experience or knowledge of Computer Architecture
- Experience or knowledge on Operating System fundamentals
- Strong knowledge or experience in PCIe protocol
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
Desired Qualifications
- Experience or knowledge on storage protocols like NVMe or TCP/IP or SAS/SATA protocol,
- Experience or knowledge on Hardware Root of Trust, Secure Boot, Security Standards such as NIST FIPS 140
- Experience in use of lab equipment such as Bus Analyzers, JTAG, Emulators
- Experience with Linux as development environment
- Experience with Virtual machines
- Experience or knowledge on Agile development methodology
- Ability to read and understand hardware schematics
- Experience or knowledge on AI/ML
- Customer facing experience
- Eagerness to learn, adapt, and take on new challenges.
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