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Job Description:

• Support SAS/SATA/PCIe/NVMe Protocol and RAID controller embedded firmware OS drivers and management software and advise customers on improving their designs based on Microchips design guidelines.
• Support manage and maintain firmware for processor-based storage integrated circuits and reference designs.
• Work closely with Tier 1 OEMs and their ODMs to define requirements manage deliverables assist with new product design wins and support initial system bring-up to full production.
• Understand customer architectures and SW designs to closely work with engineering in providing timely customer technical support of post-production products.
• Work independently and in a team environment
• Root cause customer issues in a timely manner independently or by leading a cross-functional team.
• Develop and review customer level documentation including user guides release notes technical product training and application notes.
• Understand customer requirements and drive them through the project management process.
• Travel within China and internationally as needed to work at customer sites to debug systems involving software and firmware for the market leading Microchip server/storage device product lines.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Software Engineering or a related field
• > 5 years of experience
• Strong system software and firmware development and debugging skills
  • Experience with C and object-oriented languages
  • RTOS and embedded systems experience
• Experience with ASIC and embedded applications debugging
• Strong technical leadership teamwork communication and presentation skills
• Experience with bench top equipment such as protocol analyzers/exercisers logic analyzers and other storage or networking related test equipment
• Ability to effectively work with cross-functional teams and across multiple geographical locations
• Functional spoken/written English
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with storage networking concepts and protocols (SCSI SAS and SATA iSCSI PCI PCI-Express NVMe Ethernet)
• Experience with RISC based embedded processors (MIPS ARM)
• Hardware and chip development/debug skills
• Experience with high-speed debug equipment like oscilloscopes DCAJ and BERT
• Past work with Unix & Wintel drivers and experience in FW development with light weight embedded kernels (ThreadX VxWorks eCos etc.)
• Fundamental understanding of RAID
• Experience with mass storage firmware and software
• Performance measurement and analysis experience
• Debugging skills and experience with kernel (Windbg) JTAG serial port Greenhills Debugger
• Experience working with Marketing and Sales teams
• Experience in the Storage Industry
• TCP/IP knowledge/experience
• Local Area Networking (LAN) experience

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