Technical Staff Engineer SME

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Job Description:

Position Summary

Microchip Technology is seeking an experienced power electronics Subject Matter Expert to provide technical leadership customer technical support and application expertise for the High-Power Solutions (HPS) Business Unit in India. This role is primarily technical in nature focused on helping customers successfully design validate and adopt Microchip high-power semiconductor solutions in high-power and high-voltage applications. The position requires strong hands-on knowledge of high-voltage and high-power conversion systems including Silicon Carbide (SiC) IGBTs Power Modules Gate Drivers and related power technologies.

The successful candidate will work directly with customer engineering teams to understand system requirements recommend solutions resolve design challenges and guide projects from concept through partnership with the regional BDM this individual will support design-win activity qualify opportunities and provide field-based technical and market insight to internal teams.

This is primarily a technical SME role with a defined business-development component. The ideal candidate will use technical credibility customer relationships and application insight to support strategic account growth and design-win activity.

This individual will help connect customer application needs competitive positioning technical gaps market trends and account opportunities back to internal stakeholders while supporting Microchips growth in strategic markets such as Industrial Infrastructure AI Power Infrastructure Semiconductor Capital Equipment Grid & Energy Renewable Energy Medical and Commercial Transportation.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Application Expertise

• Serve as the regional HPS technical authority for key customers in India providing advanced technical support for customer designs using Microchip SiC MOSFETs IGBTs Power Modules Gate Drivers and related high-power products.
• Analyze customer power-conversion architectures and recommend device selection gate-drive approaches protection strategies cross reference competitive devices layout practices and system-level implementation improvements.
• Identify troubleshoot and remove technical barriers to adoption including performance reliability thermal EMI switching-loss qualification and system-integration challenges.
• Support customer evaluation and qualification activities from early concept through production release.
• Develop and deliver high-quality technical content including technical presentations training material application guidance design reviews reference design recommendations white papers and customer-facing technical documentation.
• Mentor field and applications engineers support knowledge transfer across regional teams and contribute to the continued growth of HPS technical capability and engineering excellence.

Customer Technical Engagement and Design-In Support

• Lead customer technical discussions design reviews and solution demonstrations for high-power semiconductor applications.
• Partner with the regional BDM Client Engagement Managers Product Marketing Sales and Applications Engineering to identify qualify and pursue opportunities aligned with HPS strategy and customer needs.
• Translate customer requirements into technical recommendations value propositions opportunity assessments and internal feedback.
• Build trusted relationships with customer engineering teams technical decision makers and account stakeholders.
• Provide competitive and market insight based on customer designs emerging applications technology trends and commercial drivers.
• Represent HPS in customer meetings technical workshops conferences and industry events.
• Support account strategies business reviews opportunity funnel development design-win tracking and revenue forecasting with technical assessment of opportunity fit and risk.

Product & System Development

• Collaborate with Applications Engineering teams on evaluation boards demonstration platforms reference designs test plans and application validation activities.
• Support new product introductions by helping validate customer use cases evaluate competitive positioning and identify technical requirements for successful adoption.
• Assist customers with simulation design optimization loss analysis thermal analysis gate-drive design protection design switching behavior and high-power system implementation.
• Provide feedback on documentation tools models evaluation hardware and technical collateral needed to improve customer design efficiency and reduce barriers to adoption.

Why This Role

• Serve in a highly visible role that combines deep power electronics expertise with business acumen to directly influence business growth customer strategy and technology adoption across India.
• Work directly with leading customers developing next-generation power systems for Industrial Infrastructure AI Power Infrastructure Semiconductor Capital Equipment Renewable Energy Grid & Energy and Commercial Transportation.
• Apply deep power electronics expertise to real customer design challenges involving SiC IGBTs Power Modules Gate Drivers thermal performance switching behavior protection EMI and system optimization.
• Partner with the regional BDM Sales Product Marketing Applications Engineering and Product Development to identify opportunities improve technical collateral and close field application gaps.
• Develop as a customer-facing technical leader with meaningful involvement in strategic business development and HPS growth initiatives.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Applications Engineering Field Applications Engineering Power Electronics Design System Architecture or related technical disciplines.
• Strong technical experience with high-voltage and high-power semiconductor technologies including SiC IGBTs Power Modules Gate Drivers and related power devices.
• Demonstrated expertise in high-power conversion systems including topology selection device selection gate-drive design protection thermal design layout and system optimization.
• Experience supporting customer design activity from architecture review through evaluation debug validation qualification and production release.
• Experience conducting customer design reviews and providing system-level recommendations for high-power conversion applications.
• Experience using circuit- and system-level simulation tools such as SPICE PLECS MATLAB Simulink or equivalent tools.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for engineering management commercial and cross-functional audiences.
• Ability to engage customers identify opportunity potential and influence technical and business decisions through subject-matter expertise.
• Ability to work independently while partnering effectively with the regional BDM Sales Product Marketing and Applications Engineering.
• Knowledge of Indian customer requirements industry standards design practices and application trends.
• Willingness to travel within India to support customer technical engagements design reviews workshops and opportunity development.

Desirable Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering Power Electronics or a closely related technical discipline.
• Deep experience with wide-bandgap technologies especially SiC device behavior gate driving protection switching performance reliability and system integration.
• Hands-on experience with high-power lab testing double-pulse testing thermal characterization gate-drive optimization EMI mitigation or system bring-up.
• Experience with applications such as industrial drives grid-tied converters renewable energy energy storage AI/data-center power semiconductor capital equipment medical power or commercial transportation.
• Prior experience in Field Applications Engineering Applications Engineering Technical Marketing Business Development or technical leadership.
• Track record of contributing to design wins opportunity creation account growth or market expansion through technical leadership and customer engagement.

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